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BLUEFIELDS. 
side of Jamaica) of conducting the road in a zigzag 
line instead of a direct one. Owing to this circum- 
stance, a much more varied, as well as more extensive, 
prospect is obtained of the country below. The 
opening of the hays and harbours that vary the sinu- 
ous coast, as we gradually mount higher and higher, 
is very interesting ; and as we draw nearer the lofty 
summit, and look down on the variations of outline 
beneath our feet all marked as in a map, — Savanna- 
le-Mar, with a broad tract behind it, St. John’s Point, 
and even the extreme western headlands. North and 
South Negril appearing just at hand, so that the eye 
looks into the bay between the last-named points, — 
and then, leaving the land, as we gaze out on the 
sparkling Caribbean Sea stretching away to the far, far 
distant horizon — the expanded prospect becomes in- 
deed a noble one. 
The side of the mountain up which the zigzag road 
winds, was formerly under cultivation ; and many 
fruit-trees record the fact, amidst the maze of young 
shrubs that have sprung up since it has been thrown 
aside. Many a time when descending in the burning 
sun of noon, after a fatiguing morning’s excursion, 
have I been refreshed by the delicious sour-sops or 
custard-apples detected by the keen eye of my faith- 
ful negro Sam within the bush,” and obtained by 
his dexterity. If these tropical fruits do not happen 
to be known to my reader, let him imagine, for the 
latter, a custard inclosed in a rough skin bag, most 
lusciously sweet ; and for the former, nearly the same, 
but rather more fibrous, and of a delightful acidity. 
Both are as large as a child’s head; the sour-sop 
