proper application made to her Majesty, possession, on certain stipulated conditions, was given to them in February 22, 1710—nearly a year after the demise of the General, who died April 7, 1709. Great interest appears to have been exerted at home for carrying into effect the provisions of General Codrington's will, for the erection of a college; and among the contributors and benefactors to so laudable a design, are enumerated her Majesty, Archbishop Tennison, Bishops of London, Sodor and Man, Colonels Codrington, Lilly, and others. In 1716 the foundations of the college were laid, the main walls of which are six feet thick, reduced to three by proper set-off: the stone (sandstone) with which they are built being taken from a neighbouring hill to the southeast of the structure. In 1724, the shell of the college was completed; but its further progress was greatly retarded by severe gales of wind on the 13th and 14th of August, 1730, which did considerable injury. The society having arranged their plan for conducting the school, appointed the Rev. Thos. Rotheram, M.A., of Queen's College, Oxford, as master, with an usher and catechist, to teach gratuitously twenty

youths, sons of such persons as might be incompetent to afford their children a liberal education. A professor of surgery, and one of mathematics and philosophy were also appointed; and in 1744 the college was opened. The great hurricane of 1780 did great injury to the buildings, and they were not repaired until 1791. The school, in the meantime, and for some years after, underwent many reverses and alterations; and although re-established at the college, in consequence of losses from hurricanes, law-suits, and other expenses, it was not maintained and continued under such favourable circumstances as attended its first for

mation. In 1828, certain proposed changes in the system of education were passed by the society in England: these were to render the college available for a sound theological institution; and in order to accomplish this end, a principal and a tutor were to be appointed for the preparation of the students for holy orders. Twelve exhibitioners, eligible from the British West India possessions, to be maintained free of all charges, and a seminary to be opened in connection with, and in subordination to the college, wherein a certain number of

youths should be gratuitously educated, agreeably to their parents' wishes, for admission to the higher department. A medical professor was also to be appointed. These resolutions have since been carried into effect, and their recognition forms the present constitution of the college. A professor of mathematics and chemistry is likewise attached to the institution.

Burnt Hill, rising from near the wash of the waters, the sea laving its base during rough weather, lies to the north-east of the college, and presents every appearance of having undergone the action of fire. From this circumstance the hill derives its name; and to explain the burnt and fused aspect of its fragments when these are broken away from the general mass, which is of a friable nature, many persons suppose it to be the remains of some volcanic eruption. Hughes, however, relates that the hill was set on fire by a slave while roasting potatoes on it, and that it burnt uninterruptedly during the space of five years ! Another tradition informs us that the hill was fired by a ship of war having discharged combustible matters at it, which ignited, and caused it to burn for seven years! Whether

or not our belief adopt either of the latter modes of accounting for the combustion of the hill, this seems more likely to have been produced from contact with fire, than that the hill itself should have been the result of volcanic phenomena; because petroleum, or Barbados tar, is to be found at the base of the hill, and renders the conjecture not improbable, that springs of this bitumen may have existed here, and that the hill may have been highly impregnated with this inflammable matter. which, when ignited, would, no doubt, burn for a long period, or till it was exhausted. Instances of coal mines accidentally taking fire, and continuing to burn for many years, are well known.

CHAPTER X.

Return to Bridge-town-The labouring population-Various observations concerning them-Sir Evan MacGregor-The subject of the labourer resumed, in connexion with emigration-A permanent impression is made by my visit to Barbados-The end.

HERE we are at Bridge-town, after a delightful ramble over almost every part of this small but fine island, in which there is much to amuse and to instruct, little to regret in having visited, and less that I am disposed to find fault with: faults it has beyond a doubt; but they are the faults of the Mother Country: and an Englishman to criticise and decry them, would be a just illustration of the text—he would literally be pulling "the moat out of his brother's eye, without considering the beam that is in his own eye." "Little England," "Little England," as Barbados has been called by strangers, as well as by its own inhabitants, and not unjustly,- for, save the Negroes and the sun- the latter identifying himself with the God, the pride, and the mild