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fected is of even a still more costly and exquisite character than our own. The lateral walls certainly appear too thin to he able to support any weight laid upon them, hut Abbé Legoffe has no fears on that head, and the facetious Abbé is a competent judge. At present the Romish service is enacted in a very rude chapel of wood, from which they are obliged during Lent to extend awnings into the street to afford a temporary receptacle for the worshippers who crowd in from the country. St. Anne’s, the residence of Sir Ralph Woodford, stands on a very gentle slope about half a mile from the town ; the mountain forests rise almost immediately behind it, whilst the lawn and shrubbery give much of an English air to the whole place. There are some rare and valuable plants here, introduced by the governor, such as the nutmeg, which was flourishing in great vigor, the cinnamon, and the The nutmeg is a tree, and uncomclove. monly beautiful; the others were bushes. The house, though plain, is beyond measure comfortable, and it will be some time before I forget the luxury of its matchless hath. The town, the church, and the gulph lie in sight, and within a mile is the entrance of the famous valley of Maraval, and still further on the coast the less celebrated but hardly less beautiful vale of Diego Martin, with its single silk-cotton tree* prevailing over it in desolate * Bombax Ceiba.