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side of Jamaica) of conducting the road in a zigzag 

 line instead of a direct one. Owing to this circum- 

 stance, a much more varied, as well as more extensive, 

 prospect is obtained of the country below. The 

 opening of the bays and harbours that vary the sinu- 

 ous coast, as we gradually mount higher and higher, 

 is very interesting ; and as we draw nearer the lofty 

 summit, and look down on the variations of outline 

 beneath our feet all marked as in a map, — Savanna- 

 le-Mar, with a broad tract behind it, St. John's Point, 

 and even the extreme western headlands. North and 

 South Negril appearing just at hand, so that the eye 

 looks into the bay between the last-named points, — 

 and then, leaving the land, as we gaze out on the 

 sparkling Caribbean Sea stretching away to the for, far 

 distant horizon — the expanded prospect becomes in- 

 deed a noble one. 



The side of the mountain up which the zigzag road 

 winds, was formerly under cultivation ; and many 

 fruit-trees record the fact, amidst the maze of young 

 shrubs that have sprung up since it has been thrown 

 aside. Many a time when descending in the burning 

 sun of noon, after a fatiguing morning's excursion, 

 have I been refreshed by the delicious sour-sops or 

 custard-apples detected by the keen eye of my faith- 

 ful negro Sam within the " bush," and obtained by 

 his dexterity. If these tropical fruits do not happen 

 to be known to my reader, let him imagine, for the 

 latter, a custard inclosed in a rough skin bag, most 

 lusciously sweet ; and for the former, nearly the same, 

 but rather more fibrous, and of a delightful acidity. 

 Both arc as large as a child's head ; the sour-sop 



