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no one could imagine that the troops occupy- 

 ing Barbadoes, and the more immediately 

 neighbouring iflands, could belong to an ar- 

 my defignated " Leeward" in contradiftinc- 

 tion to the army of St. Domingo. Perhaps 

 the terms Charibbee Ifland divifion, and 

 St. Domingo divifion had been more accu- 

 rate. 



Led by this circmnftance we have taken 

 fbme pains to inform ourfelves, which are the 

 iflands kftownunder the term "Leeward," ac- 

 ing to the common acceptation : but we find 

 this to be a queftion of difficult folution ; al- 

 rnoft every one dividing them differently t 

 Scarcely any two perfons, from whom wc 

 have fought intelligence, have given the fame 

 reply ; nor does it feem to be accurately known 

 where the line fhould be drawn. Some re- 

 gard the diftindtion as refpeding only the di- 

 rection of the trade wind : fome derive it from 

 the courfe taken by the fhips from Spain to 

 Carthagena ; and others, from various other 

 fources and eircumftances ; yet all agree that 

 Barbadoes is the moft to windward ; and alt 

 allpw that the Charibbee iflands are lefs t& 

 leeward than St. Domingo. 



