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Title: The natural history of Barbados : in ten books
Year: 1750 (1750s)
Authors: Hughes, Griffith, b. 1706 or 7 Mynda, engraver Ehret, Georg Dionysius, 1708-1770, engraver Bickham, George, 1706?-1771, engraver Austen, engraver Erbets, engraver Larkin, Edmund, former owner
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ge Mountains found, as well as Woods;And all around the Plains are Floods. As the above-mentioned ftupendous Clifts are intirely impaflablefor many Miles, except by Three narrow Chafms hewed through theRocks, where Ten Men can refift a Hundred; this, with their Vicinity tothe Sea, reminds me of Mr. GloFver\ beautiful Defcription of the Streightsof Thertnopyl^, ----- Hoere the lofty CliftsOf woody Oeta overlook the Pafs ;And far beyond, oer half the Surge beloWyTheir horrid Umbrage cafl. - - - - Leonid as. This Place is ftill more melancholy, if we cafl: our Eyes upon thefeveral Catacombs, which on our firll Settlement in this Ifland were dugout of the Rocks in the Side of this Clift, where lie the Remains ofthofe, who, like the Patriarchs of old, procured to themfelves Places ofReft. The Antients, efpecially Ariflotle^ were of Opinion, that the TorridZone was uninhabitable, by reafon of its fuppofed great Heat ; butwhen we confider the ahnoft conftant Regularity of the Trade-Winds and
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Book I. IJland of B A R B A D O S. 25 and Weathef, and the quick Return of Night, with its moift Vapours,we cannot be at a Lofs to conceive how thefe othcrwife liot and fultryRegions, near the Equator, are hy this Means rendered not only habi-table, but pleafant ; and, as the Inhabitants are not liable to fudden The iflandChanges from Heat to Cold, they not only enjoy a great Share of Health, behVatthybut likewife hve to an advanced old Age. There are now alive (and moft of them in a tolerable good State of of fomTofHealth) within Three Miles round, in a Country-place, Part in St. Lucy s an^js^^^^Parifh, and Part \n St. Peter Eleven Women, and One Man^ whofe Age,added together, make a Thoufand and Five Years. We have likewife, intlie Illand, Three Perfons, whofe Ages, being added together, amount^ bythe beft Computation that can be made, to near Three hundred Years. Fifo^ in his Account of Brajtly fays, that feveral of the Natives therelive, fome to an Hundred, others to an Hundred an

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