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estate and to Cornwall at this first visit, and there- 

 fore I determined to confine my attention to the 

 negroes on the latter estate till my return to Ja- 

 maica. I now contented myself by impressing on 

 the mind of my agent (whom I am certain of being 

 a most humane and intelligent man) my extreme 

 anxiety for the abolition of the cart-whip ; and I 

 had the satisfaction of hearing from him, that for a 

 long time it had never been used more than per- 

 haps twice in the year, and then only very slightly, 

 and for some offence so flagrant that it was im- 

 possible to pass it over ; and he assured me, that 

 whenever I visit Hordley, I may depend upon its 

 not being employed at all. On the other hand, I am 

 told that a gentleman of the parish of Vere, who 

 came over to Jamaica for the sole purpose of ame- 

 liorating the condition of his negroes, after abolish- 

 ing the cart-w T hip, has at length been constrained 

 to resume the occasional use of it, because he 

 found it utterly impossible to keep them in any 

 sort of subordination without it. 



There is not that air of melancholy about Kings- 

 ton which pervades Spanish Town ; but it has 

 no pretensions to beauty ; and if any person will 

 imagine a large town entirely composed of booths 

 at a race-course, and the streets merely roads, 

 without any sort of paving, he will have, a perfect 

 idea of Kingston. 



