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Show 100 JAMAICA. sian of views, between their projections. On the steep slopes immediately below the road, are a number of plots of ground, lately purchased by the negroes, who were busily engaged 111 cultivating them, and in building then cottages. It IS a land of rich pastures ; the fine cattle seemed half buned 111 the guinea grass ; the meadows on the brow of the ~ountam,. 111 which they were feeding, were richly adorned w1th fern-lil<e tufts of bamboo. These grow to the height of forty or fifty feet, and wave about in the wind, like gigantic ostrich feathers. The road on the northern side of the mountain, winds down, by a gradual descent, into the luxuriant valley of Moneague, covered with guinea grass, and other herbage- very Similar, 111 appearance, to some of the picturesque, fertile, valleys of Wales. But, amidst these beautiful scenes, we were undergoing the uneasiness of being belated, with an appointed meeting ahead, which we could not reach. Eighteen miles further had we to travel from Moneague, before we could arrive at the place of our destination ; the rain was falling in torrents, and the road, in parts, was steep ru1d difficult. At length we reached St. Anne's bay, and on our arrival at the chapel, found the people in the act of dispersing. They rallied with surprising rapidity; nnd, tired as we were, of travelling, and they of waiting, we all derived refreshment, I trust, from a short but solemn meeting for worship, during which the negroes, who had come from the country in large numbers, evinced their usual seriousness and good behavior. We afterwards found an agreeable restingplace, under the hospitable roof of the Baptist missionary, Thomas F. Abbott. His house is on the brow of a high hill, tmd commands an animating view of the thriving little town, the bay, the shipping, and the luxuriant cane-fields spreading over the plain, on either side. This small place is increasing and prospering under freedom ; new houses are in course of erection, and property, near the town, is more than doubled in value. The owner of a piece of land which, five years ago, mio-ht have been purchased for £100, now refuses to take £500 for"'it. The information which we here received, was highly JAJ\.tAICA. lOt satisfactory. Rent and wages are arrangccl, irrespectively of each other, on several large properties ncar the town. These arc all dolllg well; but on others where rent is made the iu stmmcnt for compelling labor, confusion ancl disputes have followed. One plrultcr of St. Anne's parish, has cleared £3,000 sterlmg, by the last crop, and free ly acknowledges that he cul tivates IllS land more easily and cheaply than he did under slavery.. Another planter, who had been bitterly complaining of ap1JJ·oachmg rum, had refused a large sum of money for his estate, ru1d had final\ y leased it for £600 stcrljng, per mmum. Dunng the last three years ru1d a huH; Thomas P. Abbott's congregation- composed almost exclusively of black laborershave raised £2,600 sterling, for the support of the mission and other collateral purposes. ''Villiam ru1d l\iary Waters, lately slaves-h~ a black-smtth--shc a pedlar-have saved £100 ste rlmg, smce 8th Mbnth, (August,) 1838, ru1d are subscribing £1.0 per annum, to the cause of missions! 3rd Month (Murch) 12th, 1840. After callino- on the Wesleyrul Mission<>ries, and. endeavoring (I hope ,:ith success) to reconc1le a d1fference which, from a peculiar circumst1lllce, had anson between them and the Baptists, we set oiT on our JOurney to Brownstown-an easy road, as we were told-only 01ghteen mdes 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 cnltivation. Neither the well-clad and well-cleared fields of cane, nm the neat buildings on the success1vc estates,. indicated m1y thing of that ruin which some persons had so busily predicted for Jamaica-but jnst the c~ntrary. On the sides of the road, were neat hedges over-rnn With several kinds of convolvulus in full bloom. After travelling several miles, we tumcd away from the sea, (as we supposed, according to• direction) and ascended a long steep ~ull to our left, covered with pinlento trees, formiug what 18 called n pimente> walk. The beauty of these pimento tre~s Is great, something like the orange tree, but much loftwr i the bark bare, Ulld looking as if it had been peeled 9• |