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were very conducive to health ; and I generally took one, and sometimes both, before breakfast. The aqueduct, falling into the Lagoon, which I have before mentioned, is the general rendezvous for all the bathers in Georgetown ; and there are commonly as many as twenty boats assembled around the spot before sunrise. The fact is, the place has many attractions : the water is clear, without being too deep, and from the intervention of the reef which divides the Carenage from the Lagoon, is free from sharks. After swimming about in the salt water, the bather has only to stand under the aqueduct when he receives the most cool, delightful, and refreshing shower-bath from a fresh and falling stream. This is healthy and reviving and gives one a gout and an appetite for one’s breakfast. On my return from Parnassus, a heavy rain which threatened to continue, effectually counteracted my intention of going to the little town of Gouyava, which I had not yet seen, except as I passed ; and therefore, after a glass of ginger-beer and a game of billiards at the Long Room, I sat down to calculate for the benefit of my reader, and produced the following TABLE OF COINS USED IN GRENADA. Names of Coins.
Value in Currency. £. s.
Joe Joe Half ditto Quarter ditto Eighth ditto
3 12 3 6 1 13 0 16 0 8
Value in Dollars and Bitts.
d.
Dollars.
0 0 0 6 3
8 7 3 1 0
... . .... .. . . ... . ....
Bitts.
0 4 8 10 11