LETTER VI. 



General Remarks concerning Barbadoes. Different appear* 

 ance of the Wejl India I/lands, and the oppofite coaft. Si- 

 tuation and extent of Barbadoes, Period of fettlement. 

 General face of the I/land. — 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 atmo/phere. Exemption from important ills. Endemial 

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

 huts, cottages and other buildings. Varied and inter- 

 ejling fcenery. Hofpitality of the Inhabitants, Remarks 

 concerning the dijlinclive appellation of the two diviftom of the 

 armament. Difficulty of afcertaining 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 fupplying ma- 

 nure. Wet and dry feafons. Sea and land breeze. Equal 

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

 mer compared with the delighting novelty of an Englijh 

 Spring. Remarks upon Spring* An Englifh fcene in the 

 month of May, 



Barbadoes, April 7. 



Having from time to time detailed to 

 you, in all of defultory remark, the whole 



