haindfome man, fixty years of age, witfi all 

 the healrh and fpirlts of a perfon of forty. 

 He is not fo fat as his fon, tnais tres enbon* 

 pointy He is jocofe and lively, a facetious com- 

 panion, highly convivial, and, in the full 

 fpirit of the Weft Indies, a perfedk bon vivanf. 

 He entreated tis, with much kindnefs and 

 urgent folicitatlon, to make a vifit to his eftate 

 before we leave Barbadoes, apologizing in his 

 own mirthful way, for not having it in^ his 

 power to offer us more than a " plain farmer's 

 dinner, — ci p '^g-i ^ diick^ and a turkey cockJ^ 



In order to reach Bridge-Town in time 

 to go on board to fleep, Vv^e left Spendlove 

 earlier than our inclinations would have dic- 

 tated. On our way we called at the houfe of 

 Mr. Ellcock, brother to an eminent phyfician 

 ©f that name, whom we had met at Dn 

 Hindi's. We were led to the houfe through 

 an avenue of the ftately mountain cabbage trees^ 

 which are fopeculiarly calculated toformagrand 

 and impofing approach to any gentleman'^ 

 dwelling. Thefe were the fineft which had yet 

 occurred to our obfervation, not excepting thofe 

 we had feen at the college. Mr. Ellcock's- 

 is the moft modern, and moft Europeaa-look-* 



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