MEMOIR OF DR WRIGHT. 15 



from thence to the Culloden 74, and the Levant Fri- 

 gate, he was constantly engaged in a great variety of 

 practice in both departments of his profession. In the 

 course of the visits which he had an opportunity of 

 paying to the various islands of the Archipelago, he 

 enjoyed the best opportunities for observing the nature 

 and symptoms of tropical diseases ; and those particu- 

 larly to which the European is peculiarly subject on 

 his first exposure to the influence of the climate. 



He had also, while thus moved about from one 

 station to another, some prospects of promotion, which, 

 however, were not realized until the conclusion of the 

 Seven Years' War. 



From St Christophers, he writes on the 25th of July 

 1761 : " I have been recommended to Commodore Sir 

 James Douglas, and have come on board the Cullo- 

 den to wait for preferment, which I hope will be soon." 

 In a subsequent letter from on board the Levant, at 

 Antigua, he says, " My friend Sir James Douglas 

 has been suddenly despatched to the succour of Ja- 

 maica ; and I should have gone with him as first mate 

 in the Dublin, had not this frigate been unfortunately 

 out of the way ; so that my hopes of promotion are for 

 the present at an end." 



The coloured population of the islands are described 

 by Mr Wright as a " spindle-shanked," attenuated, 

 race, differing in all respects, both moral and physical, 

 from their British forefathers. The Negroes, on the 

 contrary, are said to be healthy and robust ; " but no 

 one," he observes with truth and feeling, " endowed 

 with the common attributes of humanity, can witness 



