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ftrangers dwelt on every fcene with rapture ; 

 and our kind friends, to whom the whole 

 was familiar, expreffed new delight In ad- 

 miniftering, fo amply, to our gratification. 



The cool fhelter of the foreft was derived 

 from the mountain-cabbage, from large ce- 

 dars, and from others of the oldeft and 

 fineft trees of the ifland. Amidft thefe (hades 

 we defcended to a narrow gully, between 

 two mountains, to fee one of the great 

 curlofitles — one of the reported phaenomena 

 of Barbadoes — " a boiling fpring !" On ap- 

 proaching the fpot, we came to a fmall hut 

 in which was living an old black woman, 

 who employed herfelf as a guide to exhibit, 

 under a kind of necromantic procefs, all the 

 details of this boiling and burning fountain. 

 The old dame, bearing In her hand alighted ta- 

 per, and taking with her an empty calabafh, and 

 all the other neceflary apparatus of her office, 

 led the way from the hut down to the fpring* 

 In a ftill, and moft fecluded fituatlon, we came 

 to a hole, or fmall pit filled with water, which 

 was bubbling up in boiling motion, and pour- 

 ing, from its receptacle, down a narrow chan- 



