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a Bog than Sea. ~~ 
of the Ifland of Barbadoes, | 
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lof that, till I bringinthe Plants ; where you fhall, find not only the 
colour, fhape, and el of this Plant, but the worth and value of it, 
| together the whole procefs ofthe great work of Sugar making , 
whichis the thing I mainly aim at+ But, in my way to that, I will give 
youa fleight de(cription or view, of the Ifland ingeneral ; and firft, of 
the Scituation. 7 
It were a crime, not to believe, but that you ‘are well vers’d in the 
| knowledge of all parts of the known habitable: world ; and. I thall 
feem impertinent, if I go about to inform you of the {Cituation of this 
jifland. But, becaufe there have been fome difputes between Seamen, 
whether it lye in bare 13 Degrees, orin 13 Degrees and 30 Minutes, 
I fhall eafily be led by the moft voices, ofthe moft able Seamen , to 
give for granted, that Carlile Bay, which is the Harbour where moft of 
them put in; is 13 Degreesand 30 Minutes from the Line, to the Nor- 
4 thern Latitude. 
This Bay is, without exception, the beft inthe Ifland, and isfome- 
- Uponthe moftinward part of the Bay, ftands the Town, which 
is about the bignefs of Hown//o, and 1s called the Bridge 3 for thatalong 
Bridge was made at firtover a little nook of the Sea, which wasrather 
own ill feituate $%°forif theyshad confidered health, as they did 
conveniency, they would never have fet it there 5or, if they had. any 
intention at firft, tohave built a Town there, they could nor have 
been fo improvident, as not to forefee the main inconveniences that 
uft enfue, “by making choice of fo unhealthy a place to livem. But, 
one houfe being fet up, ‘another was erected , and fo a third; and a 
et. in 3 a 
fourth, till at laft it cae totake the name of a T 5 Divers 
houfes being there built, to ftow their goods injofor their conveni: | 
ence, being near the Harbour. But the main overfight was, to build 
their Town upon fo unwholfome aplace. For, the ground being fome- 
what lower within the Land, than the Sea-banksare, the fpring ‘Fides 
flow over, and there remains, making.a.great part of that flat,a kind 
of Bog or Mc , which ventsout fo loathfome a favour, as cannot 
but breedill blood, andis (no doubt) the occafion of much ficknefs 
tothofethatlivethere. - core atzinee 
.. Atthetime of our arrival,/and ‘a month or two after, the ficknefs 
raign’d ( extreamly,as the living could hardly bury the dead 5 and for 
that this place wasnéartothem, they threw the dead carcafes into the 
bog, which infected fo the water, as divers that drunk of it were abfo- 
lutely poyfoned, and dyed in few hours after 5 but others, taking warn- 
ing by their harms, forbear to tafte any more of it. ‘ 
~The ground on either fide the Bay, ( but chiefly: that to the Eaft- 
what more than a league over 5 and from the points of Land «to the | 
| bottom of the Bay, is twice as much. 
ward) is much firmer,and lies higher; and, I believe, they will in time, 
‘remove the Townu that ground, for their Ieseafaravied ares ; L ough a 
| faffer the Store-houfésto remain where they are, fortheir convenience. 
But the other fcituation,may be made with fome charge as convenient 
{as that, and abundantly more healthful: 
| Three Bayes there aremore ofnote in this Hland ; 6ne, to the Eaft- | 
ward of this, which they call Auftin's Bay, not in commemoration 
|any Saint, but ofa wildmad drunken fellow, whofe lewdand extra | 
sak tk ; a ‘“ H : : “vagant 
Ti he Scitua- 
tion, 
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