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February 9. 



The sea- view from a bridge near Falmouth was 

 remarkably pleasing ; a stage of eighteen miles 

 brought us to the town itself, which I understand 

 to be in size the second in the island. 



However various are the characters which actors 

 sustain, I find their own to be the same every where. 

 Although the Jamaica company did not consist of 

 more than twenty persons, their green-room squab- 

 bles had divided it, and we found one half per- 

 forming at Falmouth. We did not wait for the 

 play, but proceeded for twenty-two miles to Mon- 

 tego Bay, where I once more found myself under 

 the protecting roof of Miss Judy James. 



On our return from dinner at Mr. Dewer's, we 

 discovered a ball of brown ladies and gentlemen 

 opposite to the inn. No whites nor blacks were 

 permitted to attend this assembly ; but as our land- 

 lady had two nieces there, under her auspices we 

 were allowed to be spectators. The females chiefly 

 consisted of the natural daughters of attorneys and 

 overseers, and the young men were mostly clerks 

 and book-keepers. I saw nothing at all to be com- 

 pared, either for form or feature, to many of the 

 humbler people of colour, much less to the beau- 

 tiful Spaniard at Blue-fields. Long, or Bryan Ed- 

 wards, asserts that mulattos never breed except 

 with a separate black or white ; but at this ball 

 two girls were pointed out to me, the daughters 

 of mulatto parents ; and I have been assured that 



