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presence of a great many people, who were only concerned 

 that he did not receive the stripes upon his naked body, 

 and in greater number. 



LOT. This is only mentioned once in the records. (About 

 a mile and half from Lot is Lot's wife, 1,550 feet above the 

 sea, the pillar itself 260 feet above the hill on which it 

 stands.) It is a pillar 290 feet from base to top, standing 

 1,444 feet above the sea. Record says : 



There has been two of your Honour's blacks, being strong 

 mutinous fellows by some means got some weapons and tryed to 

 get some more blacks to join them, and betook themselves to a kind 

 of fastness which was at the foot of a spiral rock called Lot, and on 

 the top of a high mountain almost inaccessible, and there in a large 

 cave they took up their residence and withstood every body they 

 could see, who came towards them from a great distance and by 

 rowling down stones kept every body off, so that they were beseidged 

 for three or four days. The soldiers, sent after them, desired leave 

 to fire at them. The Governor sayd in case they could not be other- 

 wise taken in one day more they should be fired at. The next day 

 one Mr. Worrale, a brisk young man with two or three more did get 

 up behind them, and above them, and then they hove down rocks 

 in their turn and beat down the chief of them so much bruised that 

 he dyed, at which all the people in Sandy Bay had great satis- 

 faction for they suffered much for them. These rebels were in a 

 cave at the foot of Lot. 



The summit of the pillar, 290 feet higher, can only be 

 gained by careful climbing, and it involves so much risk of 

 broken necks that few persons have ventured to try it. On 

 the summit the perpendicular sides of the pillar are in- 

 visible, and you see only the eight or ten feet of space on 

 which you stand, nearly 1,500 feet above the sea. This 

 produces a terrible feeling of insecurity. 



LONGWOOD. This and Deadwood were formerly known 

 as one property, viz., " The Great Wood." The first men- 

 tion of it is in 1678, " that there were herds of wild swine 

 in the Great Wood, and it was ordered that no person 

 should presume to kill any unmarked swine." 



In 1716 a ground plan of the wood is inserted in the records, 

 and it is said that the "Great Wood is in a flourishing condi- 

 tion, full of young trees but miserably lessened and destroyed 

 within our memories, and is not near the circuit and length 

 it was, but we believe it does not contain less now than 

 1,500 acres of fine woodland and good ground, but no water 



