Sentence:  The reader cannot but judge of the irksomeness of this situation to a mind like mine, in being daily exposed to new hardships and impositions, after having seen many better days, and been as it were, in a state of freedom and plenty; added to which, every part of the world I had hitherto been in, seemed to me a <WSD>paradise</WSD> in comparison of the West Indies. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A very pleasant place; a place full of lush vegetation.