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residence of hucksters, coloured women, and a low race of 

 Creoles and barbadoans. The new town has four principal 

 streets, and may be considered as the Cheapside of London in 

 epitome, for business, merchant's stores, retail shops, gold- 

 smiths, watchmakers, hatters, apothecaries, slopsellers, segar- 

 makers, and in fact, every thing is to be found here which 

 can be purchased in the colony. On each side this town, 

 which was also built by the British, are two canals, the banks 

 of which, when the tide is up, appear like so many wharfs, 

 completely strewed with English manufactured goods, in 

 bales, casks, trunks, or boxes. Here the spirit of business is 

 perceptible : the negroes, clad with blue trowsers and checked 

 shirts, moving to and fro with alacrity, performing those of- 

 fices, which a white man here and there distributed, dressed 

 in nankeen pantaloons and a fine calico shirt, directs from un- 

 der an umbrella. Noon generally retards out-door business ; 

 as the white men then escape into the house, and leave the 

 negroes to themselves, who, thinking it a good maxim " like 

 master like man," set themselves down to play cards, paupa, 

 and other amusing games, for the love of which they are so 

 distinguished. 



In this town there is a large wharf belonging to the mer- 

 chants, called the American stelling, where small vessels are 

 loaded and discharged. American vessels likewise come 

 alongside to land their horses and cattle. On my first landing 



