Six months in the West-Indies, in 1825

135 MARTINIQUE. Excellent eau de Cologne of many qualities and prices at Betsy Parker's; the lowest sort sold for a dollar a box, which contained six. bottles. The champagne at eighteen dollars really divine, and a certain carmine nectareous creme de Chile much, ah ! much too blessed a drink for throats in a state of moral probation.

I could get no fine kid gloves in the shops which I visited; a circumstance surely deserving much reprehension. Tight-fitting gloves are amongst the few things by which the French nation has benefited mankind, and the world which they have insulted and corrupted have a right at least to their kid and double-sewing as some recompense.

Upon the whole, St. Pierre is a pretty and civilized town undoubtedly, but scarcely deserving the extravagant commendations which are usually lavished upon it. It has attained the acme of its good looks; it can hardly be made more spacious or more convenient in any respect than it i s ; it is neat and Frenchy, and it cannot be more. But Port of Spain is even now a city in design, and its capacity for improvement of every description is unlimited.

With a mole, which must sooner or later be built, the magnificent and ever-gentle gulf of Paria washing in its walls, its freedom from hurricanes, and commanding position, I think the time will come when Puerto de Espana, or Port of Spain, Colombian or British, will more than rival every capital in South America.