HEL 
; Seats the coat. “Whales a are ° Freq suently feeny and*between 
me of ‘cember March turtle frequent the 
; ores and vicinity of the ifland abound in 
fe fowl, ea based in the cliffs and rocks around the 
é net an averajre of five years, viz. from 1801 to 1855 
Taclntive,: 165 fhips touch — at. St. Helena, and in 
war time, the long detention for convoy experienced by lar 
fleets occafions Pech an extra confumption of ito 
frefhment, that the mere ‘prodt 1étions of the ifland itfelf 
couldynever e adequate to fuch exigencies, if it were not 
amply: fupplied with falt meat from "England, a and of rice 
fro In the year 1805, the rates of provifions 
were as follow : beef { alive), 63d. per pounds: mutton 
fe 14 to 18d. do. ; potk from 18 to 20d, do. 
necbe to 12s. me turkeys 30 to = do: ; et 25 to 
ah lt “fail 4 ian 
to 125. do. 3 potatoes 8 to 10s. per 
d. per quart ; st 55 dozen ; 
‘mackarel 8d. per dozen; turtle and coaldith ot 3 pound ; 
conger, conger-cels, cayallaes, filver-fifh old wives 
ae ise pound ; itumps and foldiers 2d. each ¢ 
Benga 
oq 
a Soar Stier the firft {ettlement of St. Helena, indigo, cot- 
vines were intreduced. Rum, fugar, 
fettion, and at a more recent period, crops 0 
other grain were raifed at Long-wood, but ihiatide were 
The intrinfic waloe of St. 
objeéts which moft conduced to that important purpofe. 
“Rect ingly, every acre inftead of being devoted to the 
Sa of corn, has been applied to raifing live ftock, 
culinary vegetables. Its waters, Maar and 
slacks, atom happily adapted to the of fcorbutic 
‘patients ; and many fuch have been reftored i in the holpital 
0 perfect health, vigour, and activity. © 
By the regiftered returns of the year 1805, the population 
‘of the ifland is ftated at 504 white — 1560 blac 
‘ef f whom 1 329 were free 5 ma king a otal of om exclufive of 
‘the garvif os 
befides erg which are the eis of the ifland, 
‘afordine oo: fupply of frefh meat both to the inha- 
bitants and to 1ofpital. Lands, in general, are fuppofed 
F aieee a nett errr of between feven and eight per cent. 
The price of labour is high; ac r cannot be hired 
under 6 or 7s. a day ; the wages of a -mafon vary from 4 to 
. fr thofe of a “labourer from 2s. to 2s. Gd. ; or tea 
es 19 to 20/. ate va- 
RS fee 
he cot ’ cide itt ae 
_ three r Aas £ Ui. gor eailt, the 
ee eas or Seed giay divifion. There are two 
3 town and. another in the country. 
remain on the ifland, are accommo- 
Rese char a 
a St. Helena is aflig In-perpetu property 
Eaft In adia company as lords proprietors, w a powers 
ckeand re iflan 
silage 6d. . 
fete houfes, hates ot the rate of one guinea per day ; . 
esl table, good wines, and comfortable ie 
rs Konils the — of Great Britain, BE fel 
EON A. 
of fovéreignty and. Legilation 
’ Sh within the ifland is ve 
abs fupreme and executive 
fervant 
aig eo 
pe 
pastas is exclufively entrufted with the p 
ecret committee of the court of direétors i 1en She seed 
is not aflembled. .The authority of the whole 
centrates in him; and, by charter from the pect wheit 
ay exercife the powers. of captain- 
i civil eftablifhment confifts of an accountant, 
re-keeper, and the fecretary to government, 
with their ‘fiitants, fome of whom are the heads-of inférior 
departments, and promotions | inh place by feniority. The 
military force o an ifland is compofed of a corps o 
tillery, commanded by a Siettendnt scclosel a regiment of 
infantry, and Sie e companies of white an f i 
who are at prefent upon the footing of volunteers. The 
governor is allowed a ha and country refidence, and a 
liberal table; at the expence he company, with fervants, 
horfes, &c. The lien Seonbal-golecoor has likewife the pri- . 
vilege of a town and country-houfe, fome land, fervants, and 
a few horfes, e ot 
are each allowed a town refidence ; and, by the orders of 
the court of directors, dated 1796, the remaining company’s 
houfes were allotted to the two principal fervants next (9 
council, the engineer, chaplain, and head-furgeon. 
As to the natural hiftory of the ifland, it feems'to have 
nerally fudluate 
& 
-plenty and variety of fith, and refrefhed by numerous fprings 
of excellent. water ; the feclufion of ts inhabitant is re- 
lieved by the frequent arrival of vifitants ; and this inter- 
courfe checks and corrects their anions of life, and ‘cade 
o improve both the manners and the mind, he climate 
feat to aes rticularly adapted to the conititutions of 
Euro whom many have refided here for a long 
feries 3 years without fuffering any ma The ni 
endemic diforders to which the natives are ject are 
of the catarrhal kind ; : _thefe, as they 
matory kind, may me mez 
sae dangers ut the ocean patie it is neyer tufted i 
Ficanes ae Coe in she climates occafion fo much 
S.E. is {mooth and come. 
ices ts en the ai 
ptecatary of Aon At that time t 
4Az2 Fehabied 
