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It now remains to me to inform you that 

 we have to bid adieu to our rural excurfions, 

 and maroon-like wanderings, about the plea- 

 fant ifland of Earbadoes : for it is ordered that 

 the phyficians of the St. Domingo ftaff fhall 

 confider themfelves on duty, at the general 

 hofpital at St. Anne's Hill ; and it has fallen 

 to my lot to be the firft employed. We have 

 alfo the further duty of infpefiing the troops 

 of the different fhips of the Cork divifion as 

 they come into harbour, in order to report 

 their ftate of health, or difeafe. Luckily our 

 refidence, on board the Lord Sheffield, hap- 

 pens to be Angularly convenient for the per- 

 formance of thefe duties, and hence we hope 

 to be able ftill to continue our focial mefs ; 

 and to live in the cool breeze, afloat, inftead 

 of being crowded in the clofe and heated 

 town. 



Being in the bay, we readily fee every 

 fliip as it comes in, and can, conveniently, 

 take off a boat to proceed upon our vifit of 

 infpedion without delay : and we are not lefs 

 happily placed for the hofpital, being able to 

 reach it in a boat, much quicker than we could 

 walk to it from the town. 



