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sashes without glass ; a heap of buildings, 
erected, or rather huddled together, 
without art or taste; sloping streets, 
dirty and narrow ; and paved, one would ' 
suppose, from the pain we felt in 
walking through them, with the points of 
bayonets. In place of carriages and 
phaetons, old sorry-looking jades, more 
lean and wretched than the animals 
which drag our hackney-coaches, seven 
‘or eight fastened to a vehicle meant for 
acart, drag slowly along some barrels of 
salt beef or fish: In the old town houses 
of two stories high are palaces, and 
stores, which are let out for eight or ten 
thousand francs: per annum, (from 350 to 
450 pounds British), as magazines for the 
different productions of the colonies, or 
of Burope. | 
The New Town is more regular, more 
lively, although built in the same style, 
ov a Savanndh, or marshy meadow, 
drained about fifteen or twenty years 
azo; the whole, taken together, 15 less. 
considerable than a. large village in 
France. The houses appear empty, or, 
far the most part, occupied by people of 
colour, who have nothing, do nothing, 
truuble themselves about nothing, and 
~ who live more at their ease than our re- 
' spectable tradesmen in France, whom the 
sun never shines upon in bed, and who 
labour hard all day. Were every one 
sells, exchanges, buys, and re-sells the 
same thing again; every thing is almost 
at the price of its own weight in gold, 
and every one procures it without scarcely 
knowing how. ‘This paradox is very 
easily understood, when we come to 
know the colonies. Those who inbahit 
them, spend with profusion the. money 
they acquire without trouble ; their indo- 
lence is so great, that sooner than incomes 
niode themselves, they will pay a ser- 
vant to pluck the fruits which are under 
their hands, and another to carry them 
to their mouths. Those who arrive 
from Evrope pay for all; and when vessels 
are delayed, and do not arrive at the 
usual time, the famine becomés gene- 
ral without alarming any person. 
Population —There areas many dif 
ferent races of men here, as there are dis- 
tinctions under amonarehy. The whites, 
or planters, who differ from the Euro- 
peans by their light hair, their pale and 
sometimes dead-like countenances; the 
megrocs, by the shades. more or less 
grounded in their skins, of bronze, of ebo- 
ny, or a reddish coppers, approaching to a 
sort of brownish red,. The mixture of 
all these colours gives a race of people 
net unlike the jacket of harlequin. An 
one | 
Account of Cayenne, in South America, Sc. [Aag. 1, 
Indian anda white: woman will have a 
child, whose skin is of a reddish’ white. 
A negro and an Indian woman, one of a 
copper hue, tinged with brown. A white 
man and a negress, a Mulatto. A Mu- 
latto and a white woman, a Mestee. A . 
Mestee and a white, a Quadroon. Each 
species has its various shades of singula- 
rity, and often partakes of the influence 
of their country. The Indian has all the 
cunning, the jealousy, and the ferocity, of 
the wandering tribes of the three Ara- 
bias. The negroes, the idle, crafty, ma- 
licious, yet shallow-and confined ideas of 
the savages of Africa. The others spring 
from the mixture of the different races, 
with the vices of the climate, and the stu= 
pidity of their ancestors; indeed, it is a 
matter of doubt, whether it were not to 
be wished, that there were more blacks 
than those Aaif-whites in our colonies. 
That part of Cayenne which is on the 
continent is but partially cultivated. 
The principal plantations are there; but 
they are situated at a great distance from 
each other. The post of < Synnamars 
owes its name-to a fountain abuut two ~ 
leagues to the south-east, near the river, 
remarkable for the salubrity of its waters: — 
there formerly was an hospital there; but 
it does not now exist. Synnamari is at 
the north-west extremity of a large Sa- 
vanna of 15 or 16 miles long, and eight 
or ten wide. It consists of 15 or 16 
hats, the melancholy remains of the cq 
lony of 1763. Konamana, the place al- 
lotted for the, banished deputies and 
others, is six leagues further on. Some 
merchants of Rouen landed there in 
-1626. The shore, from which the sea 
has retired full two leagues and a half, 
was then under water almost to the 
mountains, The Konamana appeared to 
them a proper situation to found a colony, 
Cayenne and its environs being then 
peopled only by savages: they settled 
upon the summit of the rocks, in order 
to carry on a war against. the Indians, 
At the end of three weeks, three-fourths. 
of them were carried-off by pestilen- . 
tial fevers, and the remainder got on 
board their vessels, and set sail for 
France. 
The chief productions of Cayenne are 
sugar, coffee, cotton, indigo, roucou.— 
The _sugar-eane originally came from 
Asia, whence it was carried to Europe, 
and the island of Madeira: this lat- 
ter place furnished a part of what the 
Europeans brought into America. There 
are two. sorts; the one yellow, the other 
violet: the last, sort was cultivated here 
by the Indians, before we discovered the 
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