172 Timehri. 



The English colony was, in Consequence of this Cession, transplanted to 

 Jamaica, whither they came to the Number of 1,200, poor, sickly, and 

 distressed. The Gentlemen who were Commissioned to remove them, 

 acted a very Honest Part ; and when they came hither, they were well 

 received and had a large Tract of Land in the Precinct of St. Elizabeth's 

 laid out for their use. In that Part of the Island they settled, and becom- 

 ing industrious, soon became considerable. Their Posterity enjoy some 

 of the finest Estates in Jamaica, and some of them are now in the most 

 considerable offices of Trust and Profit. This Addition of Hands did the 

 Island a considerable Service ; and the kind Entertainment they met with 

 made them forget their former Hardships. Indeed, the Removal of the 

 Colony of Surinam, was the only good thing that befel Jamaica in the 

 Lord Vaughan's Time." 



In Jamaica the Surinam Quarters in 1699 became a true refuge for 

 the destitute when the ill-fated Scots' Darien settlers were allowed to take 

 up land there, and evidences remain to-day of this later settlement in the 

 properties of Culloden and Ackendown. 



There is strangely enough an entire absence of reference to the 

 Surinam matter in the Journals of the House of Assembly from 1663 

 to 1709 ; and Surinam is strangely not included by Mr. W. F. Lord in his 

 " Lost Possessions of England." 



Long, in his " Synopsis of Vegetable and other Productions of this 

 Island, proper for Exportation, or Home Use and Consumption. Of 

 Exotics, cultivable for one or other of these Purposes ; and of its noxious 

 and useful Animals, &c," given in his history, includes " 191. Surinam 

 Poison. — Cytisus minor villosus" and states that the plant was intro- 

 duced from the South American continent, and was cultivated here for 

 the cake of its poisonous qualities on fish. It was possible that this plant 

 was introduced by the Surinam Settlers. To them and to their knowledge 

 of sugar-growing the reputation in that respect, of the parish of West- 

 moreland, which, when it was formed in 1703, took in the western part of 

 St. Elizabeth and with it the Surinam Quarters, must in no small degree 

 be attributed.* 



Though Banister's Cove and Banister's Bay have long since dis- 

 appeared from the maps of Jamaica, the evidence of the arrival of the 

 Surinam migrants still exists in the names of Surinam Quarters and 

 Scott'8 Cove in St. Elizabeth, and Banisters in St. Catherine. 



* This is Tcphrosia toxicaria, the Yaraconami of our Arawaks ; it is called Surinam 

 Poison by Lunan.— J.R. 



