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Situation of 

 St.VtncHtt. 



> *A M E%1 C A. Chap- XVI1L 



T7;e Growth and Manufacture of this I/land and parts adjacent, is Sugars of all forts, viz. 

 Mufcovado, Clayd,and tiffin d . {I fuppofe I have feen here as good Sugar made as any „ m 

 the World) Gingers ,Indico,and Cottonwool . alfo Tobacco, Logwood, Fuftick ,green and yellow, 

 and Lignum-vit* : Of theft four lafi heretofore much, but no* no quantities to be had in this 

 Ifland, onely to the Leeward great ftore. The firjl four mention d Commodities receive prejudice 

 to their Trodutl by abundance of%ams or Droughts not happening in their proper Seafons : alfo 

 Violent Winds lodge the Sugar-Canes, thereby the quantity and goodneft is lefined. The chief time 

 forExpeBationisfrom January to September, when comes in the wet Seafon, that makes 

 the <I{pads not Cartable, and ufually puts an end to Making and Tranfportation of them. We 

 have two Q-ops of Comma year, Planted ufually when the %amsfirfi come in, in May and 

 November, which is gather d in about Oftober, and in March and April following. Wines 

 of all forts are here Imported, but o/Portuguefe and French the greatefi quantities, viz. 

 of Madera, upwards of fifteen hundred Tun yearly ; of Spanifh, upward of Wo hundred Tun . 

 of¥rcnch'Wmes, upward off even hundred Tun ; be fides brandy and Englifh Spirits } but of 

 thefe latter nolt> no great quantities Imported or f pent, by reafon of the general ufe of the Spirit of 

 Sugar -Qane, call'd Rum, which the meaner fort, as Servants and Slaves, do not onely drink 

 in great abundance, but much alfo is hence Tranf ported into Virginia, Bermudas, and New- 

 England. Here is alfo Imported great pre of frovifions of all forts, viz. 'Beef, Pork, 

 fijl?, See. from Ireland, New-England, Virginia, Bermudas, New-found Land, &c. 

 alfoTeafe, Flour, (Butter, Cheefe, and Bisquet . likewife Timber, Boards, Pipe and Hog/bead, 

 Staves, Sec. alfo Negro-S/aVej/rom Guinee, and live Cattel, as Balls, Colts, Afinego's, and 

 Horfes,from the Cape dc Verd Ifland, New-England . and from England, Servants, 

 and all other Commodities for Plantations*, and for Apparel 5 of all ^hich great quantities are 

 hither brought and fold. 



The Shipping that comes to Trade to this Ifland belongs generally to England ; fome few 

 Veffels are here built , and pup to and fro to the Leeward IJlands •, and fome belong to New- 

 England, Bermudas, &cL The number of Veffels Tehicb come hither to Trade in one year is 

 found upon f ear ch to be about two hundred of all forts, (fome years more, fome left) as fetches, 

 Sloops, Barques, <rc. containing in Burthen fifteen thouf and five hundred and five Tun, accord- 

 ing a* they were here Entred, which is at the leaft a third part left than their true Burthen, by 

 reafon every Ship pays one pound of Voider per Tun, the means ordain d by this Country for 

 fioring the Magazine . the greatefi part oflohich Ships re-load with Sugars for England, and 

 many go for New-England, Bermudas, Virginia, Tangier, cjre. not always full leaden 

 with this Countreys Growth. Tl?e ufual <I(ate for Tunnage from hence to London, is from 

 4 1. to 5 1. per Tun- y fometime when Ships are Very plentiful, it is at 3 1. and lef?, and at 

 other times when fcarce , from 6\. to 7 1. « the late War with the Dutch, it "toas at 1 o. if. 

 and ii 1. per Tun. 



The Government is Conflicted by the LaV>s of England, and Lttos not repugnant to them, 

 onely fome particular Laws are here made, proper for thisTkce, by the Governor {or Deputy) and 

 his Council, tybicb ufually are from feVen to twelve in number) and an Affembly that confifts of 

 twenty wo Terfons, chofen by the Free-holders, t"too out of every Tariff. 



Sect. XXIV. 



St. Vincent. 



THe Ifland of St. Vincent, South-Weft from St. Lucia, and having fixtcen De- 

 grees of North-Latitude, was fo call'd by the Spaniards, as having difco- 

 ver'd it on that Saint's Day, being the fifth of April : It is accounted eight 

 Leagues long and fix broad, and rifes round about with high Grounds and feveral 

 Mountains, which arc feen at a great diftance. This 



