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Show LETTER X. JAMAICA. Providence, R.I. Sixth month (June) 24tll, 1840, MY DEAR FRIEND, After the interruption of nearly two week!, occast· one d by the 'a ttendance of one of our Yearly Meetings and other circumstances, I re~ume the t~read of my story-requesting thy farther kmd attentwn to the diary of our tour in Jamaica. On the 16th of the Third month (March) we.lcft Montego Bay, early in the morning, a~d dro~e eight miles to Mount Carey, an inland Bapt1st statwn, and the country residence of our friend, Tlw.mas B.urchell, who met us there, from a third of hJs statwns, at breakfast. Our road lay first along a fertile valley, and next up the brow of a mountain, from which we o!J. tained delightful prospects of the sea with severallolf green islands, the town and harbor of Montego Bay, the shipping and the distant hills-the whole scene bespeaking, at once, the bounty of nature, and the essential prospen. ty of the land. The pan·s h . 0 f "St. , James" was the principal seat of the "rebellwn, (as it was falsely called,) shortly before emancipatwn. The long continued acts of provocation and oppres· JAMAICA, 139 sion, to which the negroes had been exposed, drove them at last into a state of irritation, not without instances, I presume, of crime and violence; but there can be no doubt that the flame was at once fanned and exaggerated, by a violent party on the other side: with a view to impede the march of approaching freedom. Nevertheless, freedom has come; and in this once agitated parish, virulence and confusion have given place to quietness, order, and gradually progressive improvement. We continued for two days, at Mount Carey, enjoying both ease and abundance, under the peacetul roof of our hospitable friend. Thomas Burchell is a gentleman and a christian, a man of modesty, integrity, and talent, and his history affords a remarkable example of the truth of that divine declaration, "Him that honoretl1 me, I will honor." He was once insulted, persecuted, and imprisoned. Now, although laboriously engaged in his missionary work, he is comparatively at his ease, enjoying a delightful country residence, and exercising over many thousands of the peasantry, at his various stations, an influence incomparably greater than that of any other individual in the vicinity. During an intimate association with him and his family for two or three days, we could not perceive the smallest tend1mcy in his mind, to any political abuse of his well-earned ascendancy; and from our own observation, we are able to declare that while he is the firm friend of the laborer, he is anxious to promote, by every means in his power, the fair interest of the planter. The congregation of country people at |