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and before we could obtain admittance a full hour 

 elapsed, during which I sat in an open carriage, 

 perspiration streaming down from my head to my 

 feet through vexation, impatience and fatigue, 

 while the night-dew fell heavy and the night- 

 breeze blew keen ; which (as I had frequently 

 been assured) was the very best recipe possible 

 for getting a Jamaica fever. On such I counted 

 both for myself and my white servant, when I at 

 length laid myself down in a bed at Porous ; but 

 to my equal surprise and satisfaction we both rose 

 the next morning without feeling the slightest in- 

 convenience from our risks of the preceding day, 

 and in the evening of Friday, the 5th, I reached 

 Miss Cole's hotel at the Spanish Town. One of 

 my young horses, however, was so completely 

 knocked up by the fatigue of crossing the mountain, 

 that I could get no further than Kingston (only 

 fourteen miles) this next day. In consequence 

 of the delay, I was enabled to visit the Kingston 

 theatre ; the exterior is rather picturesque ; within 

 it has no particular recommendations ; the scenery 

 and dresses were shabby, the actors wretched, and 

 the stage ill lighted ; the performance was for the 

 benefit of the chief actress, who had but little 

 reason to be satisfied with the number of her au- 

 dience ; and I may reckon it among my other 

 misfortunes on this ill-starred expedition, that it 

 was my destiny to sit out the tragedy of " Adel- 

 githa," whom the author meant only to be killed 



