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buildings for fugar, coffee, and cotton, houfes 

 of planters, the fmaller dwellings of cottagers, 

 and the huts of negroes, all of which improve 

 the fcenery, while they convey the idea of 

 extenfive population, and delight the mind 

 with images of rural enjoyment, and of gene- 

 rally diffufed comfort and tranquillity. The 

 numerous buildings, together with their pro- 

 tecting fhades about them — the luxuriant 

 tropical vegetation — the conftant verdure of 

 the fields — the evergreen foliage of the trees- — 

 the broken irregular hills, lofty mountains, 

 and cultivated rich- yielding plains — all fur- 

 rounded with extenfive views of mipping, and 

 the open fea, create an effedt more varied and 

 interefting than is often to be met with, and 

 contribute to render Barbadoes a mod: plea- 

 fant and pi&urefque ifland : and from this, 

 added to the examples I have given you of the 

 Jiofpitality, and, friendly urbanity of its in- 

 habitants, you will difcover how highly it is 

 calculated to call forth the attention, intereft 

 the feelings, and fecure the attachment of 

 thofe who vifit it. 



In fpeaking to you of the fituation of 

 Birbadoes, it occurs to me to notice theconfu- 



