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Show 130 J,\MAICA· h. . d the luxuriant cane-fields spreading over s 1ppmg, an 1 1 . . I . 'tl . si'de This sma I p ace IS mcreas-the p am, on e1 1e1 · . m· g m· prosper!' ty under freedom ; new houses are m. f t. n and property, near the town, IS course o erec 10 ' . . h d U bled in value. The owner of a p1ece of more t an o I d h. h five years ago might have been purchased an w JC , ' ' for £100, now refuses to take £500 for it. The in-formation which we here received was highly satis· ,ca c t ory. Rent and wages are arranged, irrespectively of each other, on several large properties near the town. These are all doing well ; but on others, where rent is made the instrument for compelling labor, con· fusion and disputes have followed. One planter of St. Anne's parish has cleared £3,000 sterling by the last crop, and freely acknowledges that he cultivates his land more easily and cheaply than he did under slavery. Another planter, who had been bitterly com· plaining of approaching ruin, had refused a large. sum of monev for his estate, and bad finally leased 1t for £600 st;.rling, per annum. During the last three years and a half, Thomas F. Abbott's congregationcomposed almost exclusively of black laborers-have raised £2,600 sterling, for the support of the mission, and other collateral purposes. William and Mary Waters, lately slaves-he a blacksmith-she a pedlar -have saved £100 sterling, since 8th Month (Au· gust) 1838, and are subscribing £10 per annum, to the cause of missions! Third month (March) 12th, 1840. After calling on the Wesleyan Missionaries, and endeavouring (I hope with success) to reconcile a difference which, from a peculiar circumstance, had arisen between them JAMAICA. 131 and the Baptists, we set off on our journey to Brownstown- an easy road, as we were told - on! y e1· g11 teen miles from St. Anne's Bay. The first half of the route lay by the sea side, through a rich plain which we found under prosperous sugar cultivation. Neither the well-clad and well-cleaned fields of cane, nor the neat buildings on the successive estates, indicated any thin~ of that ruin \~hicb some persons had so busily pred,_cted for Jamaica-but just the contrary. On the s1des of the road, were neat hedges over-run with several kinds of convolvolus in full bloom. After travelling several miles, we turned away from th e sea, (as we supposed, according to direction) and ascended a long steep hill to our left, covered with pimento trees, forming what is called a pimento walk. The beauty of these trees is great, something like the oran?e tree, but much loftier; the bark bare, and loo~mg as if it had been peeled of its outer coat, the leaf d_ark, glossy, and of an aromatic smell. The produce lS the berry called all-spice, which finds at present, a very low market, and the cultivation of it pays badly. As we quietly proceeded on foot, up the steep ascent and through these fragrant bowers, the scenery became very alluring-Cardiff Hall, an old planting settlement, appearing on a green penn (or park) below ~ ~arge grove of cocoa-nuts hard by, and the sea, of right blue, in the distance. We were told that we sho. uld find B rownstown, where a meeting was ap-pbomted for the evening, at the top of this mountain. ut to r ' , our <Ismay, when we reached the summit we 'ound ourse 1v es at an estate called Antrim on ' the wrong road ' an d eJ. g h t m1. les from the place' of our K2 |