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were lefs fleeting, or could more frequently 

 recur ; for, upon fuch occafions, the mind 

 feems to enjoy unparalleled delight ; and to 

 dwell with rapture, on objeds which, under 

 other circumftances, would pafs unheeded 

 by. 



We took our umbrellas in our hands, by 

 way of parafols, but found lefs occafion for 

 them than we had been taught to exped: ; for 

 although the heat was greater, by feveral de- 

 grees, in Bridge Town than in the harbour, 

 we did not feel, from it, any degree of lan- 

 guor or opprelEon. A pleafant breeze coun- 

 teraded the ardent rays of the fun ; and, at 

 our firft vifit, we rambled, for two hours, about 

 the town, to the barracks, and into the fields, 

 with far lefs inconvenience from heat, than I 

 have often experienced in the clofe and fultry 

 days of England. 



It will be quite within your recoUedioa 

 how long, and how much I have wiflied to 

 vifit the fhips trading to Africa, and to witnefs 

 perfonally, the manner of treating thofe poor 

 beings of fable fkin, who are torn from their 



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