[The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus by American Anti-Slavery Society]@TWC D-Link bookThe Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus CHAPTER III 137/197
No subject is likely to be introduced amid the festivities of a fashionable circle, until it is fully endorsed by public sentiment. Through the urgency of Mr.C., we were induced to remain all night. Early the next morning, he proposed a ride before breakfast to Scotland. Scotland is the name given to an abrupt, hilly section, in the north of the island.
It is about five miles from Mr.C.'s, and nine from Bridgetown.
In approaching, the prospect bursts suddenly upon the eye, extorting an involuntary exclamation of surprise.
After riding for miles, through a country which gradually swells into slight elevations, or sweeps away in rolling plains, covered with cane, yams, potatoes, eddoes, corn, and grass, alternately, and laid out with the regularity of a garden; after admiring the cultivation, beauty, and skill exhibited on every hand, until almost wearied with viewing the creations of art; the eye at once falls upon a scene in which is crowded all the wildness and abruptness of nature in one of her most freakish moods--a scene which seems to defy the hand of cultivation and the graces of art.
We ascended a hill on the border of this section, which afforded us a complete view.
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