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or in Bridge-town ; compared to whom they 

 would feem the more robuft inhabitants of a 

 temperate climate. Both in countenance and 

 in general ftamina, they are very unlike the 

 fallow cache&ic-looking fubje£ts of the towns. 

 To find any of the colonifts of fo ftrong and 

 healthy appearance, was matter of gratification 

 to me, having been impreffed with a contrary 

 expectation, from the very difcouraging re- 

 ports I had heard regarding thefe fettlements. 



From all that I had colleded upon the 

 fubjeft, I had underftood it to be a very gene- 

 rally received opinion at Barbadoes, and the 

 neighbouring iflands, that the climate upon the 

 coaft of Guiana was, Angularly, unhealthy: 

 but the appearance of the gentlemen alluded 

 to is fufficient to refcue it from a prejudice 

 fo unwarranted. Judging, indeed, from what 

 I have yet feen, there feems no caufe to be- 

 lieve that the air of this coaft is fraught with 

 any thing of peculiar infalubrity ; or that it 

 is, in any degree, more noxious tha*i the atmo- 

 fphere of the iflands. 



An opportunity has, alfo, occurred to me 

 of viewing the general face of the colony, by 



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