£q Mr. WAFER/ Difcription 



Hills and Woods intermix d : \ And the Hills 

 are every where fertile to the top (though 

 more fruitful nearer the bottom) and even the 

 tops of the main Fudge are cover'd with very 

 flourifhing Trees. Yet the Hills from which 

 the Gold Rivers fall, near Santa Maria, are 

 more barren towards the top., and bear 

 fhort Shrubs fcatter'd here and there. The 

 Soil feerns capable of any Productions proper 

 to the Climate : I believe we have nothing 

 that grows in Jamaica but what would thrive 

 here alfo $ and grow very luxuriantly, confi- 

 dering the exceeding richnefs of the Soil. 

 The The Woods of this Country are not the 



woods, |a me on the tops or fides of the Hills in 

 the Inland Country, as they are near the Sea« 

 For in the drier and more rifing Inland Coun- 

 try, the Woods are rather a large Foreft of 

 Timber-trees, or a delightful Grove of Trees 

 of feveral kinds, very large and tall, with 

 little or no Underwood : And the Trees are 

 placed at fuch a diftance from each other, as 

 that a Horfe might gallop among them for a 

 great way, and decline them with eafe. The 

 tops of thefe Trees are generally very large 

 and fpreading 5 and, I prefume, 'tis the 

 fhade and dropping of thefe which hinders 

 any thing elfe from growing in the rich 

 , Ground among them : For in the open Sa- 

 yannahs, or where the Ground is clear d by 

 Induftry for Plantations, there grow fmaller 

 ■Vegetables in greater abundatice. But on 



