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Show 64 ANTIGUA. . d 1 thm. r 1m . sure hours in working on their occupiC on Y !so earning wages as labor. d They were a own groun 5• • t tcs or working at English ers on the neighbonng es a ' I:I b mechanics. . ar or, as .d d drives about Antigua, we D . our ri es an urmg l cimens lying on the road, of · . 0 bserve< spe · ' sometimes : c ctions for which the island is kable petwa those remar .Ither of woods found in the I b t d They are e ce e ra e · . f adrepores, mostly discovered in t ap formatiOn, oro m . . f . r, ·I The woo<1 s tJ1us fossilized, are o vanous the mai · h hich still grow on the island, k . I •nerally t ose w me s, ge ' . d often filled up with beautiful Pe r,c,.e, ctly stone, ,tn d t These petn'f 'a ctw. ns . of ·as per an aga c. ' specimens fi.J . t I ish and when polished are of admit of the nes po ' ' singular beauty. h I f On our return to St . John's ' towards t e c o. se. o the week the v1. car con veyed me to some of the mfant 'h' h h had founded in the country: the schools w IC c ' . ·r · d of these institutiOns was grati ymg. order an success d bl k I f them I was introduced to an age ac none o ' · 1 h I woman, wh o was I' n the ha' bit of attendmg tI.C sc hoo d She could not read herself, but a as an amateur. · 1 fift . . d t obtain a perfect knowledge of t Je y· con tn ve o S ·our's third chapter of Isaiah, clescriptive ~f our avi e . . sufferings. She repeated this chapter tom VICariOUS . . f em baSIS with entire accnracy, and with a mccty o ~ d h. h plainly proved how well she understooc, anf w IC ' . h rseo how strongly she felt its meanmg. In t e cou te our excurs.w n we caI I e d at th e Ce.d ar Vall.e v. estTah e' which we found in high order and prospenty. f 't manager, James Bell, made an excellent report oh II; "It is Jess troub I e, " saH. I h e, "t0 conduct the w o ANTIGUA. 65 concern now, than it was to manage the hospital alone, before emancipation." Afterwards we visited a small hospital, under the vicar's care, for male and female l:pers. The dry leprosy, which gradually eats up the extremities of the body, and often the features of the face, is a complaint to which the black people, in the West Indies, are very liable-nor is it confined to them. The complaint is said to be incurable. In this hospital, its unhappy victims were well provided for, and under religions care. They seemed very much at their case, and cordially accepted a few sentences of exhortation and sympathy. In the evening our friend Holbcrton's negro flock assembled in a large school-room, and displayed much devout attention, during a meeting for worship held by us on the occasion. The next morning a friend of ours, a merchant in the town, conveyed me to the estate of a large resident planter, and member of the council, who received me at his house with the greatest politeness. The manager, a respectable elderly Methodist, drove me about the cane-fields in a country cart, and seemed to take no small pleasme in pointing out the luxuriant crops of sugar cane, at once so vigorous and so clean. He declared that the crops of Antigua had never been taken off more easily, than during each successive year since the date of freedom. This gentleman's estates had been largely peopled with slaves, and in consequence oppressed by mortgages. Now he works them with less than one third of the num her, and at a vastly diminished expense. "The whole expense F |