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LETTER XXIV. 



Author and his comrades receive kind attentions from Mr, 

 Hinde. Make a vifit to Dr. Hinde. General face of 

 the country above Bridge-Town, The party at Dr» 

 Hinde s ivitnefs the procefs of making rum and fugar. 

 Slaves employed as running footmen. Four women feen 

 toiling in a cane -field ivith a man holding a whip at 

 their backs, Dr, Cleghorn and the Author continue their 

 walking exercife. Meet with trees of the poifonous man^ 

 chineel — alfo of the fea-grape, A coco-nut grove, Hof 

 pitalify of a planter. A happy negro-yard. Mode of 

 HvafJjing linen at Barbadoes, 



Barbadoes, Feb. 



Hav ING fatigued you, In my late letters, 

 t^ith tedious noteSj concerning the Haves and 

 their cuftoms, I feel happy to have it in my 

 power to introduce you to the fociety of 

 their mafters. Through the friendly me- 

 dium of Mr. Benjamin Hinde, a merchant 

 of great refpedabillty in Bridge-Town, we 

 have been made known to feveral gentlemen 

 who refide in the country, and are of im- 

 portance in the ifland : and who, in liberal 

 and friendly hofpitality, offer us the means 

 of feeing the whole of Barbadoes, and of 



