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Show JAMAICA. 142 . . the want o f l ab or on many properties IS for freedom, d ely to the want of money b trace mer obviously to. eT h1.s ev1. 1 WI· n be rectified by the gra-to pay for It. fi d m as has already been so . fl of ree o ' dual m nence . A tigua. A third estate, near k bl the case m n . remar ac Y 1 d "AIIchovy" was g1ven up as a yc·tle ' Mount are a' t t' he fi rs t d a te of freedom, but is now bad concern, . of free labor, has already resume d ' an d ' by v1rtue 1 ven·d itself. . near Y reco h) lSth Early in the mornmg Th. d month (Marc . f . d lr d in company with our nen 1 c Mount Carey, an ' we ett l h a cultivatecl country, to 11 d ve t uoug ' . Burche • ro no't her stat 'w n, where the Baptists have Betheltown, a . c hundred and fifty members gregatwn, 'our a large. con1 h an d a sc· h oo l for one hundred and of thei~ c mrc 'The neighboring village, consisting fifty. chilfd ren. 1 t occupied and well culti- h ld sett emen s, of httle ree 0 1 d ved to many of them a d b th negroes, la pro vate Y e . and now presented a f f from oppressiOn, • place o re ~ge . It was here that we first scene of qmet prospe~Ity. f . The plant has h lt' atwn o gmger. observed t e cu IV d th r,oot which forms the l'k leaves an e long grass- I e ' l "or sale by the simple article of commerce is prepar.e t '' . h ' It cer- . nd drymg m t e sun. process of cleanmg a . ·hort and easy d h gro cultivator a s tainly alfor s t e ne W took our leave 1. . nev e now method of rea Izmg mo - . . d l 'th one of his of Thomas Burchell ; and, pro vi ec WI . ey over · d ursued our Journ obliging people as a gm . e, p . 1 at Kcpp, a ro· d until we arrtvec , rough narrow roa s, . h f "St Elizabeth-k . th . ariS o . mantic penn or par , m e p f the most respect· the estate of George Marcey, on~ ~ d He is a pious able resident proprietors of the IS an . JAMAICA, 143 member of the church of England, and although declining in years, devotes his time and talents to the gratuitous education of nearly a hundred negro children. Though we were total strangers-five in nurnber, with six horses and three drivers-he received us with cordial good-will, gave us an excellent dinner, summoned the people in the neighborhood to a religious meeting in the evening, lodged us most comfortably, and dismissed us the next morning after breakfast, with as hearty a blessing as any one could bestow. He seemed, however, a good deal discomforted by the difficulty which was experienced, in that neighborhood, in procuring labor; and, although he acknowledged that a gradual improvement was taking place, complained rather bitterly of the state of things around him. On subsequent enquiry, we had reason to believe that the difficulty in those parts, as in other places, was very much connected with extravagant charges of rent. That our friend himself was somewhat too prone to discouragement, appeared from a circumstance of which he informed us,-that a few years since he had sold a certain sugar estate, called G--, for the trifling sum of £1500. "And what dost thou suppose to be the value of that property now, friend Marcey?" said one of our company. "Ten thousand pounds," was his immediate reply-an assertion which afforded us a fresh and palpable evidence, that, notwithstanding occasional and temporary difficulties, Jamaica is on the road to solid prosperity. Another item of information with which this gentleman fiJVored us, was equally satisfactory. Few persons are so well acquainted, as he is, with the people |