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all the violence of a pelting ftorm, and drove 

 us to feek flielter in a neighbouring cottage* 



Amidft the variety comprlfed In the 

 view from Hilloughby hill I muft not forget 

 to mention that we faw what is here termed 

 the runaway eftate" — which is a territory 

 of many acres of fine and rich foil, fo called 

 from having been removed, at various times, 

 to a confiderable diftance, by heavy torrents 

 of rain, or fudden ruptures of the earth. It is 

 faid not to be an unfrequent occurrence, in 

 this ifland, for a large trafl: of land thus to 

 affume a change of place ; many examples of 

 which are to be feen in the parlfhes of St. 

 Andrew and St. Jofeph. Large trees, plan- 

 tains, fugar canes, and different crops of 

 growing produce have been removed with 

 their foil, and have continued to thrive iu 

 their new fituation, as well as if they had 

 remained undifturbed. 



A very fingular change of crop, and of 

 foil, Is faid to have happened at the eftate of 

 a Mr. Fofter, where a large portion of land, 

 in the pofTeffion of a poor tenant near the 



