How indeed could it be otherwise, in a small Island of volcanic mountains, far within the Tropics, and perpetually covered with the richest vegetation ?" The moral aspect of things is by no means so good; but neither is that without its fair features.

"So far as I see, the Slaves here are cunning, deceitful and idle; without any great aptitude for ferocious crimes, and with very little scruple at committing others.

But I have seen them much only in very favorable circumstances.

They are, as a body, decidedly unfit for freedom; and if left, as at present, completely in the hands of their masters, will never become so, unless through the agency of the Methodists." [9] In the Autumn came an immense hurricane; with new and indeed quite perilous experiences of West-Indian life.

This hasty Letter, addressed to his Mother, is not intrinsically his remarkablest from St.Vincent: but the body of fact delineated in it being so much the greatest, we will quote it in preference.