Cap. I V. 7 be Caribby-Iflands. 



Potatoes, make fo delightful a Landlkip, as muft caufe an ex- 

 traordinary recreation to the unwearied eye. What very 

 much adds to this delight, is, that in themidftof every Plan- 

 tation, or Garden, there may be feen Teveral fair houfes of dif- 

 ferent fcruclrures, particularly thofe which are cover'd with red 

 or glaz'dflate, contribute a greater luftre to that pleafantper- 

 fpeclive. And in regard there is a perpetual afce'rit in the Ifland, 

 the lower ftage.or ftory deprives not the fight of the pleafuve 

 anting from the profpect. of that which lyes at a greater- di- 

 Itance 5 but a man may at one grafp of the eye, as it were i u an 

 intrant, behold all thofe delightful divi-fions, all thofe ways 

 which look likefo many walks of an- Orchard, planted wit-h, 

 feveral forts of Trees 5 all thofe Gardens regularly befet with 

 divers Fruits 5 and all thofe Edifices, which for the moft part 

 are not diftant one from another above a hundred paces. In a 

 word, fo many agreeable objects offer themfelves to the eye, 

 at the fame intuition, that it is at a kind of lofs on which moft 

 to fatten it felf. 



There is indeed a certain neceffity, for the greater conveni- 

 ence of the Inhabitants, andeafier managing of their employ- 

 ments, that their houfes mould be diftincl: one from another, 

 and plac'd in the midft of that piece of ground which they 

 have to manure. The French, befides the houfes they have 

 thus difpos'd at certain diftances, have, in their Quarter of 

 BaJJe-terre^ a Town which grows bigger daily, and whereof 

 the Houfes are of Brick and Timber. It lyes neer the Haven, 

 where commonly Ships lye at Anchor. The moft cbnfiderable 

 of the Inhabitants, and Foreign-Merchants have Store-homes 

 there. 



The French and Dutch Merchants, who rcflde there con- 

 ftantly, are well furnifrYd with excellent Wines, Aqua-vit^, 

 and Beer, all forts of Stuffes, of Silk, or Wodll, fit for the 

 Country, and generally all the refrefhments, which being not 

 of the growth ofthellland, are yet neceflary for the better 

 accommodation of the Inhabitants. All is fold at a reafonable 

 rate, and in exchange for the Commodities growing in .the 

 Country. In the lame place live feveral forts of Trades-men,, 

 whofe employments are neceflary to Commerce and civil So- 

 ciety. There is alfoaHall for the adminiftration of Juffke, 

 and a fair Church able to contain a very great Congregation: 

 The Structure is of wood, rais'd on a foundation^ Free-done : 

 Infteadof Glafs-windows there are only turned Piilars,. after 

 the fafhion of a Balcony. It is cover'd with red Slate. 



The Capuchins for fome years had the overfi-ght of the faid 

 Church, and the charge of the Souls, as to the French, over 

 the whole Ifland : but in the year one thoufand fix hundred 

 forty and fix, they were difengag'd from that employment by 

 the unanimous confentof the Inhabitants, who civilly difmifs'd 



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