NEVIS. APPEARANCE OF THE ISLAND-CHARLESTOWN SCENERY PINES, MONKEYS, AND MOSQUITOS CHURCHES — NEGRO NAKEDNESS HERE THE JAIL AND ITS INHABITANTS—TEMPERATURE OF NEVIS MR. LAKE.
W E left Montserrat at noon on Thursday the 25th, with the wind very fresh at S . S . E . , passed Redonda in the mid-channel, which is well enough represented in the charts as like a large haycock, except that it is quite green, and cast anchor in the open bay or road before Charlestown at five in the evening. We did not land till early the next morning. The appearance of Nevis is perhaps the most captivating of any island in the West Indies. From the south and west it seems to be nothing but a single cone rising with the most graceful curve out of the sea, and piercing a fleecy mass of clouds which sleeps for ever round its summit. It is green as heart can conceive, perfectly cultivated, and enlivened with many old planters' houses of a superior style, and churches peeping out in the most picturesque situations imaginable. A complete forest of evergreen trees grows like a ruff or collar round the neck of the high land where cultivation ceases. On the north and N 2