26 Mr* Andsrsgn^s Account of a. 
die in the woods. The propriety of their reafomng was evi- 
dent to me ; yet I thought it hard, after the fatigues of three 
days and two nights, to - be within half a mile of the top, 
and not be able to get up, and to know little more about it than T 
did at the bottom. As the negroes had not the fame motive 
for going up as I, all my reafoning was to them ineffectual ; I 
found I was obliged to return rnyfelf, as f could not perfift 
alone. At half paft twelve we began to defcend the fame way 
we came. As there was now a clear path all the way to 
the bottom, we got down to Mr, Ga sCo’s by fun fet. After 
fitting feme time here, I was hardly able to rife again, I wasfo 
tired ; and my feet were fo fore I could hardly Hand on them, 
for, my fhoes being torn to pieces, I came down the whole way 
bare-footed. I continued my journey, however, to Mr. Ma» 
lqune’s, where I arrived between fix and feven at night. 
March 4th, being the day I had fixed to finifli my excurfion, 
about four in the morning, I left the houfe of Mr. Fraser, . 
who out of curiofity agreed to accompany me, of which I was 
very glad, as he was a fenfible young man ; and with the affift- 
ance of two negroes we purfued our journey. We found very 
little obftruCtion in our way up, until we got to the place where 
I returned ; and there, for about a quarter of a mile, we had 
confiderable difficulty to clear our way through grafs and ferns. 
After we came within a quarter of a mile from the top, we 
found ourfelves in another climate all at once, the air very cold, 
and the vegetable productions changed ; here was nothing but 
barrennefs over the whole fummit of the mountain. On the 
confines of the grafiy region and the barren I found fome beau- 
tiful plants. Mofs grows here in fuch plenty, that I frequently 
funk up to my knees in it. This is the only place in the Weft 
Indies that produced any mofs that I have feen. About noon 
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