BRITISH SETTLEMENT


and durable defence against the weather,
and is found particularly valuable for
plantation buildings, and these bf-ai infe-
rior kind.
 The town' being situated as previously
 deseritbd, renders any intercourse with the
 interior country especially by land, ex-
 tremely 'difficult; there ~iot having been
 any roads formed, nor is it possible there
 tcoldi -vitkout extraordmtin y laboui ahd
 expenceZ travelling tAtlhis can therefore
 only be conveieni.tly pemformedtbyrn ater:j
 at tfitance, however, of four ori five miles
 has been cut through -the swamp;, whicfi
 in fniereahber, afford '-a tbierably pleasant
 ride on horseback-: the'sids of 'this road
 being profuiely lined with a mnostagre&e
 able variety :f foliage,,of whihl' tIat tisr
 fdrded by the staeiy-mna ngrinve; (r-'i'ito no
 angj) tnainc hieel, (hippoM6i an -uwanc
 tella,*~) and -pop'onax, L it iMst pred4mbn
 *The deleterious quality of the fruit of the
manchineel is well known. It is believed.' hwever'A