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reformation of the public mind would be effected than it will be easy to bring about by other means. He is but newly instituted to this living, and the Bishop has appointed him one of his chaplains. I anticipate with reason the most beneficial consequences from his zealous ministry, his enlightened superintendence, and his very general influence.
The religious establishment of St. Kitt's is, with perhaps the exception of Nevis, relatively the largest of any in the Antilles. Yet there are only nine churches for the accommodation of about thirty thousand persons. Some of these are really very large, and almost every one in good condition, and furnished with great neatness. They are for the most part situated near the sea, and command the most exquisite prospects on all sides. They are lovely to look at and lovely to look from. On the north the majestic pyramid of St. Eustatius is an object of ever-changing and ever-glorious appearance, and if the rector of St. Mary Cayonne in the south-east is not a happy and virtuous man, then mountains and valleys, trees and running streams, the blue ocean, and retirement cannot make him so. I drove and rode round this island with the exception of the southern extremity, which is