WHITE'S JOURNAL OF A 
to my companions, if I might judge from the avidity with 
which they drank out of the little pools, lying on the 
ground at full length, that being the only poflure in which 
it was to be obtained. 
The regularity of the ftreets of the town, which interfe(5t 
each other at right angles ; the buildings, gardens, caftie, 
and forts ; with twenty-three fhips then at anchor in the 
bay ; all which appeared diredly underneath us 5 was a 
fight beautiful and plealing beyond defcription. The per- 
pendicular height of this land is 1857 feet from the furface 
of the water. On the top of it we gathered feveral fpecies of 
heath, fome wild celery, a few fhrubs, and fome non-defcript 
plants; we found alfo fome little ftones of a fine polifh and 
fingular whitenefs. 
In our defcent, which proved nearly as difficult and trou- 
blefomc as going up, we faw fome runaway negroes, round 
a fire, on the clift of a ftupendous rock, where it was en- 
tirely out of the power of their owners to get at them. To 
look at their fituation, one would think it beyond the utmoft 
ftretch of human ingenuity to devife a way to reach it. 
Here they remain all day in perfect fecurity, and during the 
night make frequent excurfions to the town and the parts 
adjacent, 
