Six months in the West-Indies, in 1825

GRENADA. Peneus, and a cloven eminence near to it Mount Parnassus, where sugars of the finest quality in the colony are produced.

My stay in this island was short, but I was much delighted with all that I saw. Grenada is perhaps the most beautiful of the Antilles, meaning by this that her features are soft and noble without being great and awful. There is an Italian look in the country which is very distinct from the usual character of the intertropical regions, and is peculiar to this colony.

I rode a considerable way into the interior, and found every part green and broken and romantic. I had not time to reach the Grand Etang, which, I am told, is a great curiosity. But after all, I believe nothing in the island surpasses the prospect from Government House or the Richmond Heights; it almost deserves that Westall should make a voyage from England to see it and paint it.

St. George's is a large town and picturesquely placed on a peninsula and the sides of a hill, but the consequence of this situation is that the streets are all so steep that the inhabitants consider it unsafe to use any sort of carriages on them. However they certainly make more of this than is necessary. I would engage to drive a tandem with perfect security from the landing place in the Carenage to Government House. The church had no roof when I was there, but the plan of a new build96