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LETTER Vf. 



General Remarks concerning Barhadoes. Different appear- 

 ance of the Wejl India Ifands, and the oppoftie coaji. Si- 

 tuation and extent of Barbadoes, Period of fettlement. 

 General face of the If and : — called aged and decrepit. In- 

 habitants proud of its antiquity. Early commerce and popula- 

 tion of Barbadoes. Its decline from its former profperity. 

 Middle clafs of Inhabitants. Temperature and falubrity of 

 the atmofphere. Exemption from important ills. Endemial 

 malady. Carlife bay. Whence fo named. Towns, houfes^ 

 huts, cottages and other buildings. V aried and inter- 

 eflingfcenery. Hofpitality of th? ~ Inhabitants. Remarks 

 concerning the difinclive appellation of the two diviftqns of the 

 armament. Difficulty of af cert fining which the windward, 

 and which the leeward ifands, according to the common ac- 

 ceptation. Soil of Barbadoes. Remarks on tillage and cul- 

 tivation. Small cattle kept for the purpofe of [applying ma* 

 nure. IV et and dryfeafons. Sea and land breeze. Equal 

 length of the days, Abfence of twilight. Perpetual fum- 

 mer compared with the delighting novelty of an Englifh 

 Spring. Remarks upon Spring. An Englifh fcene in the 

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Regularity obferved at Barbadoes in regard to rifing and going 

 to refl. Land and fea breeze. Diet and mode of ferving 

 the table. Planters and merchants fometimes grow fat : 

 clerks, book-keepers, &c. very thin* Condiments much ufed. 

 Plenty deemed a greater excellence than delicacy of affortment 

 at a Barbadoes feafi. A Wejl India dinner. Englifh habit 

 of driving ladies from the dinner table praclifed afo at 

 Barbadoes. Bad arrangement of dinner parties* Attend* 



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