re 
been built on the succeeding accumulation from the 
ocean, has no sort of commercial importance. 
The old city must have been wealthy,— for King- 
sten has risen on its ruins. In the wars of the French 
Revolution, when the neighbouring Colony of Saint 
Domingo was a great and rich dependence of the. 
enemy,—its naval importance made it a place of bu- 
siness :—but never anything more than mere victual- 
ing business : the supply of vegetables to the ship~ 
ping ; of pigs and poultry to the outward bound 
Vessels, and of turtle to the merchant princes of Lon- 
don. Allthis is now nearly gone. Peace has re- 
duced the naval activity to the fitful visits of the 
Admiral to the station, and steam navigation has con- 
centrated the bustle of comers and goers all in King- 
ston. ‘The mercantile shipping no longer halt at 
Port Royal; and the vegetable market, that madeit 
worth while to distinguish the plantation at Passage 
Fort, that supplied it teeming with melons and cu- 
eumbers, as thick as the ficids of Egypt, with the 
name of Pumpkin-ground, is still stocked with escu- 
lent roots and fruits, but for very little beyond the 
week’s supplies to the impoverished dwellers in the 
remnant of the town now known as Port Royal. 
There are two persons, humble, but not forgotten, 
though both dead, of whom I have been anxious to 
obtain some intelligence. The motherly lodging- 
house-keeper, the Couba of Nelson’s correspondence, 
and Sarah Adams, the matron of the naval Hospital. 
Neison, in writing to his friend Captain Lockyer, 
whom he calls his best of friends, and from whom so 
many of his early letters have been recovered, inva- 
riably sends remembrance from Couba of Port Royal, 
