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fmoothly out of the Bay into the wide Ocean : 

 But I kept my Eyes fixed upon the dear Coun- 

 try, till Night fpread out her fable Curtains, 

 and hid it for ever from me. I then fighed, 

 dropt a few tears, and faid. Farewell, happy IJle ! 

 N. B. As the Holes under our Sugar-Coppers are 

 all on the Weftern-fide of our Boyling-houfes, 

 To during Crop-time when they have a fire in 

 them, they muft of courfe caft a dazling fliow 

 in the Night, towards the Bay. It is an obfer- 

 vation of all Perfons who fail from Antigua to 

 Nevis, That when they get as far as the fmall 

 rocky Ifland of Rodondo, they are moft highly 

 gratified with a charming Profped: of that quarter 

 of Nevis called Gingerland, it being the Eaftern 

 Pariih of the Country, and of courfe, not to be 

 feen at all from the Bay at Charles Town. V/iiid- 

 iioard Pariih too exhibits a moft beautiful Land- 

 fkip to fuch as fail by on that fide of the llland. 

 I often thought it a thoufand pities, that Pepper, 

 Clove, Cinnamon, and Nutmeg-Trees, were not 

 long ago tranfplantcd from the Eajl-Indies, to the 

 Leeward IJlands', for then England might have 

 been fupplied with thofe Spices at a far cheaper 

 rate, than by purchafing them of the Dutch, I 

 fhould imagine it no difficult talk, to fend three 

 or four Ships very privately to India for that pur- 

 pofe, viz, to bring away large quantities of their 



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