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and products of the islands was a great attraction to 

 Kingston. 



Tram-cars run to one of the suburbs called Con- 

 stant Spring, about an hour's ride from Kingston, 

 passing on the way many pretty villas, in which the 

 wealthy inhabitants of the town take refuge from 

 business. A commodious hotel has been built at this 

 place, offering every convenience for visitors. The 

 beautiful park, called the Victoria Park, is rich with a 

 wealth of tropical plants which every foreigner covets ; 

 the keeping and arrangement of the plants are carried 

 out with the greatest crood taste. Although a lar^e 

 part of the island is mountainous and uncultivated, 

 there are many fine sugar estates, and the growing of 

 sugar-cane and making of sugar and rum occupy most 

 of the labour of the island. Every variety of tropical 

 fruit is in lavish abundance, especially pine-apples, 

 many of which find their way to the London market. 

 Some of the Oncidiums grow in profusion in the 

 climate of Jamaica. Many of the cottages have quite 

 a quantity of plants, which flower very freely and look 

 extremely pretty. Although the negroes are generally 

 averse to hard work, it would probably be difficult to 

 find a more peaceable, law-abiding community than 

 the coloured population of the island of Jamaica. In 

 the country their tiny hovels are little removed from 

 sheds, often miserably neglected, but in the towns 



