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the morning the thermometer ftood at 73^ 

 and the weather was pleafantly cool, but it 

 afterwards grew very clofe, and the little air 

 that was ftirring, coming from the fouth, we 

 all felt the temperature much increafed, and 

 every one complained of exceffive heat. We 

 were on fhore during the morning, but hav- 

 ing left our thermometers in the (hip, had 

 not the opportunity of obferving the degree of 

 heat, either in the town, or the bay: from 

 our feelings, compared with the preceding 

 days, we judge it to have been at leaft 86. 



Although it was unufually hot and op- 

 preflive in Bridge Town, we perceived a 

 ftrong difference, indeed found a tolerable 

 breeze, in the more elevated part of the 

 country. We took our dinner at Dr. Hinde's, 

 which I before mentioned to you is fome 

 miles from the town, and fo far from feeling 

 the heat oppreffive, there, we were not at all 

 incommoded by it. Thirteen perfons fat down 

 to table, and I remarked that not one of the 

 party had occafion to ufe his handkerchief, 

 in a way that might have ihocked the de- 

 licacy of a Ghefterfield. 



