Soil of I. Mayo, T'owns^ Slc. ag 
the Sea. The Soil is for the moll: part 
either a fort of Sand, or loofe crumbling 
Stone, without any frefh Water Ponds or 
Streams, to moiften it ; but only Showers 
in the Wet-feafon, which run off as faff as 
they fall : except a fmall Spring in the 
middle of the Ifle, from which proceeds a 
little Stream of Water that runs through 
a Valley between the Hills. There the 
Inhabitants live in three fmall Towns, hav- 
ing a Church and Padre in each Town ; 
And thefe Towns, as I was inform’d, are 
6 or 7 miles from the Road. Pinofe is faid 
to be the chief Town, and to have two 
Churches: St. "Johns the next; and the 
tMwA LagoA. The Houfes are very mean ; 
fmall , low Things. . They build with 
Fig-tree ; here being , as I was told, no 
other Trees fit to build with. The Raf- 
ters are a fort of wild Cane. The Fruits 
of this Ifle are chiefly Figs, and Water- 
Melons. They have alfo CaliavAnces (a 
fort of Pulfe like French Beans') and Pump- 
kins, for ordinary Food. The Fowls are 
Flamingo’s, Great Curlews, and Guinea- 
Hens ; which the Natives of thofe Iflands 
call Ga/iena Pintada^ or the Painted Hen ; 
but in Jamaica^ where I have feen alfo thofe 
Birds in the dry Savannah’s and Woods, 
(for they love to run about in fuch Places) 
they are call’d Guinea-Hens. They feem 
to be much of the Nature of Partridges, 
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