APPENDIX. 



more especially suited to the production of sugar than 

 any other in the West Indies, it is neither within my 

 province or ability to explain." 



PAGE 



" I am informed, however, that the planters of Saint 

 Christopher's are at a great expencefor manure" 



ISLAND OF NEVIS, 



VOL. I. BOOK III PAGE 434. 



" The SDil is stony ; the best is a loose black mould on a 

 clay. In some places, the upper stratum is a stiff clay*. 

 which requires labour ; but properly divided and pulve- 

 rized, repays the labour bestowed upon it." 



^J^^ ISLAND OF ANTIGUA. 



VOL. I. BOOK III PAGE 446. 



" This' Island contains two different kinds of soil; the 

 one a black mould on a substratum of clay, which is naturally 

 rich, and when not chequed by excessive droughts, ta 

 which Antigua is 'particularly subject, very produ&ive. 



The 



