NOTES 



ON THE 



WEST INDIES: 



v. 



WRITTEN DURING THE j 



EXPEDITION UNDER THE CoS^IAND 



OF THE LATE 



GENERAL SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY : 



INCLUDING OBSERVATIONS ON 



THE ISLAND OF BARBADOES, 



AND THE SETTLEMENTS CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH TROOPS, UPON 



THE COAST OF GUIANA ; 



LIKEWISE REMARKS RELATING TO THE 



CREOLES AND SLAVES OF THE WESTERN COLONIES, AND 



THE INDIANS OF SOUTH AMERICA; 



WITH OCCASIONAL HINTS, REGARDING 

 OF HOT CLIMATES. 



By GEORGE PINCKARD, M. D. 



f * * 



OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, 

 DEPUTY INSPECTOR-GENER AL OF HOSPITALS TO HIS MAJESTY^ FORCE S, 

 AND PHYSICIAN TO THE BLOOMSBURY DISPENSARY, 



IN THREE VOLUMES, 



VOL. II. 



It is a ftrange thing that in fea-voyages, where there is nothing to be fbene, but 

 {ky and fea, men fbould make diaries ; but in land-trauaile, wherin fo much is 

 to bee obferued, for the moft part they omit it ; as if chance were fitter to be re- 

 giftered than obferuation. Lord Verulam» 



PRINTED FOR LONG1VI AN, HURST, REES, AND ORMEj 

 PATERNOSTER-ROW. 



l806. 



