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fudden convulfion of nature. But from their 

 being of very irregular and mountainous fur- 

 face, while the land of the proximate fhore is 

 peculiarly low and flat, to a diftance of many 

 miles from the coaft, it would appear that the 

 iflands and the main land owned a diftindt, 

 and very different origin. The craggy fhores, 

 and rugged broken figure of the iflands be- 

 fpeak the convulfive throes of a fudden birth ; 

 while the fmooth and muddy furface of the op- 

 pofite coaft indicates a lefs difturbed and flow- 

 er beginning. Probably the latter has been 

 formed from the gradual depofit of a feculent 

 ocean — the former from the vehement vomit- 

 ings of volcanic eruption. 



Barbadoes is the mod windward of the 

 Weft India Iflands ; and is in that divifion of 

 them -known by the appellation of Charibbee 

 Iflands — a name they have obtained from one 

 of the nations of Indians, who formerly inha- 

 bited them, * 



It is about twenty-one miles in length, by 

 fourteen in breadth ; lying in latitude 13 0 

 North, longitude 59 0 . Weft. The Englifh 



