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Show 10 VOYAGE FROM NEW-YORK. ruination of our voyage ; and fair was the wind, the next morninu which wafted us safely to our harbor. The :ppearance of Santa Cruz, as you approach it from the North, is picturesque and pleasing-to us who had been so long at sea, and were strangers to vVest Indian scenery, it seemed clad with beauty-a succession of rounded or conical hills and mountains, cultivated to their ve1y tops; partly red (being the color of the soil) where the hoe had been at work; and partly bright green, where already covered with the sugar cane-neat planting settlements visible in various spots ; severally consisting of a mansion, a boiling house, a number of negro huts, and a wind mill on some neighboring elevation, for grinding the sugar- the green wooded dells between the hills-and the cocoa-nut trees, with their tall stems, and strru1ge looking, but elegant, deciduous branches, scattered over the whole scene. We landed at Fredcricksted or West-End, exactly two weeks after our departure from New-York. Good boarding houses, well suited for invalids, were ready for the reception of all tho passengers. For ourselves, we found a peaceful and commodious resting place in the house of our kind friend Rebecca Rogers -a house which we can cordially recommend to the notice of West Indian travellers. The hot-house warmth of the atmosphere, was very preceptible to our feelings on our first landing ; but we were soon refreshed with the delightful easterly breeze which seldom fails to blow in Santa Cruz ; and certainly it was not without a feeling of heartfelt gratitude to the Creator and Preserver of men, that we first landed on a West Indi,m shore. One consideration alone was oppressive to us-10e had come to a land of slavery. Bllt it is time I should close my first letter. I am, with great respect, &c. &c. LETTER II. SANTA CRUZ. Flushing, L. L S·ixth-month (June) 2d, 1840. MT DEJ.Jt FRn:l'fD, The charms of a tropical country, when novel, are calculated to make a delightful impression on the mind; and as we roamed along the lanes, and cane-fields of Santa Cruz, during the first few days after our arrival, we could easily conceive the pleasure enjoyed by Columbus and his followers, when the fertility and beauty of West Inuian scenery first burst upon their view. Many beautiful productions of nature however, not indigenous, are now added to the catalogue of wonders, which inflamed the imagination of Columbus. Almost every plant we saw as we drove or rode about the country, from the largest tree to the small weed, was unlmo\vn to us. and formed the subject of somewhat troublesome enquiry. It was a new world to u~, as wc~l as to its first discoverer; and several days must be passed amidst these scenct, before one can obtain any thing Ji!{e a fami:inr acquaintance with the productions of nature. Sp:endiu exotic p:ants which would be regarded as rarities, even in the greenhouses of Englund and America, are cultivated in the little gardens of Santa Cruz; and the wild flowers are scarcely less attractive. Amongst them, we observed large kinds of convolvulus, white and pink; yellow bell-l!owcrs, scarlet creepers. bright blue peas of singular beauty; und to crown all, the "pride of Barbadocs," sometimes crimson, someti,nes yellow, with butterfly petals, long pendent stamina, and acaci3 I ike leaves, adorning the hedges in great profusion. The trees are, for the most part, bearers of fruit, and many of them are covered with luxuriant foliage. To se- |