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or, if thefe Ihould not faffice, I might enfure 

 him an ample reward for his journey, in the 

 fociety of the hofpitable friends with whom 

 we partook the feaft. 



In the evening the Colonel loaded us 

 home with fruits from the orchard ; but the 

 party did not feparate until our kind friends 

 had planned for us a ftill more extenfive ma- 

 rooning excurfion ; to which I need fcarcely 

 fay we gave our moft cordial confent. Our re- 

 turn to Bridge-Town was peculiarly pleafant : 

 the moon flione bright : the heat was mo- 

 derate, and we had quite the agreeable ride of 

 an Englifh fummer evening. The diftance 

 is about eight miles, and as we defcended 

 from the higher to the lower land the air be- 

 came perceptibly clofer, until, at the town, the 

 breeze feemed to defert us, and we, no longer, 

 felt the cool perflation, which had been fo 

 grateful to us in the more elevated parts of 

 the ifland. 



Never, perhaps, did a long and inter- 

 efting day pafs more pleafantly ; nor was 

 hofpitality ever evinced with more friendly 



