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surmounted by heavy bas reliefs out of all propor- 

 tion. 



February 4. (Sunday.) 

 We breakfasted with the Chief Justice, who is my 

 relation, and of my own name, and then went to 

 the church, which is a very handsome one ; the 

 walls lined with fine mahogany, and ornamented 

 with many monuments of white marble, in memory 

 of the former governors and other principal inha- 

 bitants. It seems that my ancestors, on both sides, 

 have always had a taste for being well lodged after 

 their decease ; for, on admiring one of these tombs, 

 it proved to be that of my maternal grandfather; 

 but still this was not to be compared for a moment 

 with my mausoleum at Cornwall. After church I 

 went home with the Rector, who is one of the eccle- 

 siastical commissaries, and had a long conversation 

 with him respecting a plan which is in agitation for 

 giving the negroes something of a religious educa- 

 tion. We afterwards dined with the member for 

 Westmoreland ; and as every body in Jamaica is 

 on foot by six in the morning, at ten in the even- 

 ing we were quite ready to go to bed. 



February 5. 



The Chief Justice went with me to Kingston, 

 where I had appointed the agent for my other 

 estate in St. Thomas's-in-the-East to meet me. 

 The short time allotted for my stay in the island 

 makes it impossible to attend properly both to this 



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