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cents appeared amply sufficient to enable most of these street 

 or curb-stone merchants to have a good start in life. The good 

 nature and generosity of the colored peojile as a class was 

 very marked. They freely gave to each other from their lit- 

 tle stores, and never seemed to either fret, fume, Avorry or 

 hurry. Truly 1)le.<sed are these destitute children of the sun, 

 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven — if heaven is the state or 

 condition of being contented and happy — or if it is a country 

 Avhere nothing that makes a man rich in this ever enters. It is 

 worth a journey to Nassau to learn the extent of man's artificial 

 wants. 



The streets of Nassau are to a large extent made in and u2)o)i 

 the surface rock, the paving having been previously done when the 

 shell and coral sands Avere hardened into stone. By filling up 

 the hollows with broken stone, the roads are easily kept in good 

 repair, as the rains soon dissolve the lime in the rock sufficiently 

 to form a cement which makes all comiiact and solid. Prisoners 

 in small scpiads, ornamented and secured by chain and ball, are 

 daily seen Avorking upon the roads — sitting sometimes, Avhile 

 Avorking with their hammers, unshielded from the hot sun, in 

 the dazzling light reflected from the Avliite surface, Avhile the 

 thermometer registers from 1-40° to 150°. 



Sherley street runs next south of and parallel Avith Bay street, 

 and is the second street in extent and importance. East Hill 

 street runs for a short distance back (south) of the Royal Vic- 

 toria Hotel. A fcAV cross streets extend southerly from Bay 

 street — most of them but a short distance. The principal 

 of these are : 1st, Market street, leading to Grant's ToAvm, the 

 north terminus of Avhich is at the City Market; 2d, George street, 

 which, commencing at the Vendtie House, passes in front of the 

 "Cathedral" or Christ's Church, and extends to the foot of a 

 long flight of stei)s leading to the Government House or residence 



