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upon the Medi•cnnvncan. They make a st•rup of
these grains, o Inch is reputed useful in certain pul-
monary complaints.
`rise jxuiprras berntarlaasa is very much esteemed
for the quality of its wood ; the grain is fine and
close, mud 'wore clisrged with resinous particles than
the jauiperus PYirgissiana. As iu this lust species
the Lip is not more thlii live or ►ix lines in thick-
ness, in a tier of twelve or fourteen inches in dia-
meter, this wood it employed to make sloops, and
in all times this furs lien the principal branch of
industry among the Berinudious. These vessel•
are esteented on account of their long &oration.
It is Said, however, that they are more likely to
split if they touch Ilium any thing, than those made
of oak. :ioner months since m* ctitters, from I-20
to 140 toils each, were built at the Bermudas, by
order of the British gmernment.
The juniperws beromudiana constitates the sole
wealth of the iiihslotaeits ; :mil they estimate the
fortune of an individual by the nouibet of trees he
possesses.
1 !rave been arsons' that there are no indigenous
quadrupeds in this country. The only birds which
I saw in the woods, are &sin ran/Ma/is rod the blue
bird, atotariat sialis, which, as is known, hi:long to
the continent of No►tit America.

Every year, to the months of March and April,
the rachat,l approaches very near the coasts ; some
of the inhabitai.ts, but particularly the free men of
colour, give themselves up to this fishery.
The most common shells here belong to the gelltl3
torGo, donor, orighlligs. Those of the last il.ieciies
are very abundant, and nut above five or six Imes
in length.
Agriculture, which is now almost annihilated at
the Benno'los, was formerly very flourishing. The
proof of this may be had by looking at the register*
of the custom-house, which make mention of the
quantity. of sugars and wines exported manually
hunt the colony. The present inhabitants employ
the amsll comber of negroes which they possess to
cultivate pulse and maw., and to raise poultry.
They hate ul■o very little cattle, and I did not see
in this Wand above a dozen cows, who appeared
to bite with difficulty the species of meuslicago of
which I hare spoken. There are place+ iii the
country that might produce better pasturage, but
they are all planted with jatuiperea. 1'146%11.14ms of
ill sorts are so aciir:.!e and so dear, that vessels of
war, which come perpetually to Bermuda, can pro-
cure nothing there but onions and potatoes.
There is but one sort of stone in this island,
which is found every where, at the depth of ■ leis
feet. When it first coraes from the quarry it is
very white, and so tender, that it may he reduced
to powder by one's fingers: after it has been ex-
posed to the air, it becomes a deep grey, and
acquire.s a sufficient hardness. Viewed through a
lens it appeared to me to be composed of a very
fine sand and shells. There are two quarries
workeii near the town, ia each of which are em-
ployed cght or ten negroes or millattoes, who gani
from u piastre to one and a half per day. The
labour is easy ; the stones, when detached from
the insss, are sawed iii flat pieces of Omni two feet
in lenath, and six or right Indies thick.
Neither iii the island ol• St. George, nor hardly in
any of the others, are there to be area, either springs
or streams, mid experience iota proved, that pits eau-
not be dog. for it ; heuce they use only rain water,
from Ole precautions they use, suffices not
only fur the consuniptioa of the inhabitants, !Alt
also fur supplyinc Lips of war, which pat into Ber-
muda only for th it purpose.
About one hundred paces from the edge of the
sea are constructed, upon an iischned plane, too
immense terraces, of a triangular form, intended
for the reception of rain water, which rum into cis-
tern►, near which they roll the empty casks, and
till them with pumps.
These terrace* are constructed ii masonry, sur-
rounded by a wall, and though they occupy each a
spare of I.io. or 500 fathoms, they are not always
adequate to the supplying all the vessels. The dis-
taute of the government cisterns from the tos%ii is
about a mile. The road that leads to it is ahout
eight or ten feet broad, and shadowed with jtenipc-
res. Vessels of war, of the first and second size,
nut b►intt able to enter ere port, they anchor on the
coast, and are conducted by a pilot to the distance
of our or two miles from the cisterns.

The town of St. Georige does not contain more
than from 250 to dins houses. It is divided into
twelie streets, which are very narrow and not
paved ; and only one of which is capable of ad-
mitting a carriage: the houses, only half of which
have a story above the ground floor, are for the
most part covered with yellow plaister of Paris.
All of them are constructed of stone, and covered
with tiles, fastened together at their extremities,
with a gutter round the roof. to receive the rain
water; this roof, which is painted white, reflects
the rays of the sun is a manner very painful to the
eyes.
Mane houses have little 'gardens.- the walls
of which are covered with Indian fig trees,
ewers epiretie. Nothing but the niost torn•
mon plants are cultivated in them. I have seen,
liawever, in some of them, the corks papaya, the
niches esedarodr. the toruyan free, and the eeraarsiet
reveries, awl souale. Very few people are to be
met in the streets, and the iiiliebitants appear to
be extremely indolent. There are not above five
or six merchants in the town, who sell, very dear,
spices, iron ware, and drapery. The Americans
bring into the reentry, planks, maize, meal, but•
ter, and some other provisoes, fur which they pay
ready money.
The population is estimated at about eight or
Mite thousand. I do nit know the proportion be-
tween the whites and the negroes, who, it is said,
are the most numerous. The lower lasses are
accused of watching for ships dining a tempest,
that they may pillage those whirls have the mi..
fortune of striking on the whore : Ault the Bennis-
dials corsairs have always been esteemed forini-
dahle.

These islands are slid to be very healthy ; and
this need not be ilmilited, from their sitivition and
internal conformation. Foettris AII Olt Mil HAUL.
From the strictness' of the blockade, the inhabit-
sots of St. Dot tt itt to had long sotisrell tinder the
severest prisatio.is ; lit WNre time previous to the
surrender, they had been ohliged to revd on dor,
eszs. nits, der. The number of the British troops
lauded WAS shout 800. The French troops also sur-
rendered oweouutcd to stout 500.