{everal Reafons very convenient 3 + et there was one effential "Happinefs 
wanting ; for, upon very, heavy: Rains, the Water in ,thefe artificial Ponds, : 
being difturbed, became muddy:: _ And, .as their greateft’ native Luxury. . 
_ (if it may now-a-days ‘be . fo called) was to. drink of ‘the pureft Streata, > 
it. was natural and cuftomary for’ them ‘to ramble in. Search of Spring=: ». 
Water, which at a little Diftance from ‘hence ‘they found.in the Eftate’. 
* of. Edward Bonnet, Elgy “Here they fettled, near a {mall perennial Spring, - 
_ which is the only one ‘for feveral Miles round it. . The ‘Situation of this” -_ 
- /-\ Place afforded another additional Conyeniency,, being, by the Goodnefs of: 
the Soil, very proper to produce Yams, Plantain, and Banana Trees’; but. - 
as there was no ‘Cave to afford Shelter, they were obliged to cut down | 
b) ‘ ‘ 
_.,that there. are found, about this Place of their Refidence, fo many. Frag~ 
. © ments ‘of broken Hatchets, Chiffels, and. Pots... There are not only near L 
--, this Place, but 'likewife at Maycock’s. Bay (11)... Yoan’s Hole, Cluff's Bay, 
‘and near Scotland Church, as well as in other Places, many Tokens of .~ 
~ Timber to build Huts; and from thence, in all Probability, it-comes, 
“yt pestteheir former Abode. “To this may be added, that there is a Tradition’ ~. 
4 
‘+ in’ a Family of Negroes, belonging to Thomas Tunckes; Efq; the An-. ES. & 
‘eeftors of which. Family came over’ with the. ‘firft Negtoes that ever « ° 
~, came hither. from Guiney, that before the Country’ was cleared “from ae 
An Lidian Woods, there. was an’ Indian Town near a “Pond, ‘in his: Eftatey in the.“ 
own. 
and, when thefe Indians could not for a lon 
 Parith of S.Michael’s, ‘which Refervoir to this Day is called the Indian Ponds, ~ 
Bs. 
- © Subjeétion by the WAires, the laft Attempt was fo vigorous, that it obliged 
all the Indian Inhabitants. of. the ‘Town ‘to make their Efeape in their © 
“Canoes to the neighbouring Ilands; which: they all ‘didy except one .. 
a _ Woman, and her Sona young Lad: « ‘The latter foon afterwards. making. 
- +. chis: Efcape alfo, his Mother, ina hort time, pined to Death. Several. 
« 
| #-o:Earthen Veflels, ‘of : different Sizes, have been. dug ‘up near. the above-.. - 
"|. mentionéd Pond, within’ thefe thirty Yeats laft paft: ‘Thefe were: ge- 
~~ “nerally of a globular Figure, of a Slate: Colour, but very: brittle other= 
_} wife, far furpafling the Earthen-ware made here by: Negroes; in Thinnefs,. “* - 
2" dndian 
‘Ware. 
* Earthen- - 
f Smoothnefs, : and. Beauty: 
Let us now fum-up thefé Teftimonies, arid put the Contino vidint 
'~ I have’ offered on this Head, upon.’ the Authority: of thefe Proofs. A 
' for the firft Proof, that there are feveral Places inthis Ifland called-after 
_ ‘their-Names } this, tho” the leaft, carries with ita. Degree of: Gonviction, * 
+, which ‘cannot be well: gainfaid ; for, “who © will” pretend. to nite 
ee’ (without -being led into:,the feveral: ‘Particulars of the: Hiftory of the. 
» + Fimes): whether the Cele’ did not formerly poffefs and inhabit that Part: = <0°>. 
» _ of France, called Armorica, when he. finds the moft. antient. Churches, att ght 
and notable Places, retain: their. Celtic: Names to this Day ?. Or, what °- 
~~. Sceptic: would be hardy enough: to difpute, -whether the Ums dug up’ a 
: : ~ in England were not originally depofited. there by th Romans 2: “Such 
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