month. From the lofty summit of a mountain is beheld an extensive circuit of country. The scenery at the foot of the mountain is lively and vivid; the negroes, in gangs, are employed in the fields cutting canes, or weeding pastures; numerous herds of oxen, &c. graze in the reaped fields, or verdant acclivities. An endless diversity of hill, valley, wood, mountain and defile, interspersed with clusters of the bamboo cane, copses of underwood, pastures shaded with lofty trees, plantain walks, ruinates, and extensive fields of sugar-canes, chequer and adorn the face of the country; while from the works of many of the properties, columns of smoke perpendicularly ascend to a great height in the pure heavens-and activity and stir is apparent around them. At a greater distance, an extensive and beautiful valley, rich in the products of the soil, opens to the eye. The morning mists, which still partially hang over it, have the illusive appearance to the beholder of a vast lake resting on its bosom behind it are the evanescent hills, losing themselves by degrees in the clouds. At a still greater distance, appears the ocean-still, calm, and unruffled, the sea-breeze not yet having curled its smooth glassy surface. The air is serene, the sky cloudless, and the sun, now immerged into sight, appears as if resting on the bend of a distant rising while he gladdens and illumines the whole scene! Innumerable wild

flowers, shrubs, and blossoms, now exhale their sweetest perfumes; and the birds, who retire silently into the shade from the mid-day heat, now warble their renovated song.

But to return to the subject of travelling; the morning is by far the most desirable time for travelling here; so that the traveller, if he wishes to perform his journey with the greatest pleasure and least inconvenience to himself, must rise betimes, before Aurora has begun with rosy fingers to draw the curtains of day, while the dew yet bespangles the fields, and nothing is heard but the shrill horn of the watchful cock. But, if compelled to travel under a vertical sun, an umbrella, or some sort of shade, is absolutely necessary; at least to those unused to exposure to equinoctial skies. About nine o'clock, the heat is begun to be felt. Travelling along the sea-side is certainly least unpleasant at mid-day, as the sea-breeze, catching coolness from the wave as it skims over it, tempers the heat, and comforts and refreshes the traveller.

All kinds of carriages for travelling are in use in this country; but it is impracticable to travel with these in most of the mountainous roads, they being too steep to admit the use of such vehicles: so that riding is the most general mode of travelling; and there are consequently at least three şaddle horses in the island for one carriage horse: it is in the level parts of the country alone where

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gigs, chaises, &c. are made use of, deed they are in very general use. quins, the inhabitants of the West Indies have not yet arrived at that pitch of effeminacy to copy this example of it from the Asiatics. A horse here will travel fifty miles in a day; but it is improper to push him to this extent in a climate so hot. Being, however, bred in the country, and inured to the climate, he is better able to perform it than an English horse would, being less liable to surfeits and other diseases of the blood, arising from heat and fatigue. Walking is very little practised in Jamaica by the whites; though a negro, who is hardier, more robust, and better accustomed to this kind of exercise, will walk thirty miles in a day with ease. In Great Britain, a walk of ten or twelve miles is called a healthy and pleasant tramp; in Jamaica it would overpower the strongest white man, if performed in the ordinary time taken in the former country, unless in the cool of the morning, or evening, or under the shade of trees. On account of the extreme

relaxing heat of the climate, it is, too, that all athletic games are usually avoided. Cricket parties have sometimes amused themselves at this

game in the evenings; but it is found too violent an exercise.

There is one thing which renders travelling in Great Britain so much the more pleasant;-the variety of beautiful and adorned seats, &c. with

which the face of the country is every where enlivened and embellished. Scarcely has the traveller proceeded a few miles in his journey, when he is amazed and delighted with the various objects that salute his view; charming villas, ro mantic castles, awful ruins, neat villages, and the spirés of distant towns, are continually passing in succession, and recalling the stories, legendary tales, and records of history, which relate to them. The tourist would here have a barren field for observations of this cast. Neither could he enrich his account with the genealogy and history of celebrated and illustrious houses, and anecdotes of the distinguished individuals belonging to them, as also of other remarkable characters, to whom the places he passes through may have given birth ;-all which form so respectable a part of a modern tour. There are few if any, individuals, or families here, who have made themselves thus distinguished by uncommon talent, brilliant atchievement, or any thing else that is very remarkable or eccentric. Their history would be therefore little more than an insipid blank. One year, month, or day, differs little from another in the lives of the inhabitants of this island, and is only to be distinguished (by themselves and connections) by any new extraordinary accession of fortune, or means of obtaining it. All, therefore, which a tourist could say of the opulent individuals here would be, that one kept a

better stud of horses than another, or had a larger retinue of servants; that hospitality and profusion marked the table of one, and a variety of excellent wines that of another; that one had a better, larger, and more commodious house than his neighbours; that one was famous for race-horses, another for game-cocks (both in high estimation here); and a third for cabbages and cucumbers. In short, it is in an European country, made celebrated by the interesting history of ages, and whose face is enlivened and diversified by the embellishments of modern taste, and the vestiges of ancient magnificence, that the curious and enlightened traveller receives ample gratification. In Jamaica he will be disappointed if he looks for these.

But, if he be an admirer of the stupendous works of nature, and fond of contemplating the picturesque and romantic, he will here have ample room for the indulgence of his taste; here his imagination may wander amid objects congenial to it. Here he may enjoy the sublime and terrific in all their native wildness, by traversing narrow paths, where, on one hand, he will see an immense rock suspended as it were above him, and rising to an immense height; and, on the other, a tremendous abyss beneath, where the tops of the loftiest trees are seen waving between him and the bottom! In these solitudes he will hear nought but the most melancholy sounds and