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higher ground than the immediate environs 

 of Bridge-Town ; the country rifmg towards 

 the interior of the ifland, in elevated ranges 

 of diftinft table-land. At one fpot we afcend" 

 ed by a very fteep road, and, having reached 

 the fummit of the declivity, there found our- 

 felves again upon an extenfive plain. Soon 

 afterwards v/e came to another rocky preci- 

 pice, and having mounted this, by a path 

 of difficult afcent, we arrived upon another, 

 and dill higher range of table-land. From 

 the points of thefe fudden elevations w^e com- 

 manded very extenfive and delightful views 

 of the country below^ of Bridge-Town, of the 

 fea, and of the fliipping in Carlifle Bay, 



The land Is cultivated in open field — 

 hedges J walls, and all the ufual fences feem 

 to be unknown ; nor does the eye difcover 

 any diftind feparation of the dixFerent eftates ; 

 but it ranges, uninterrupted, over a wide- 

 extended furface, richly fpread with the 

 various produdions of a tropical foil, and 

 pleafantly interfperfed with the manfions of 

 the whiteSj and the huts of the negroes. Cot- 

 ton, pigeon peas, and Guiaea corn, conftitutQ 



