ANGUILLA. SINGULARITY OF ITS APPEARANCE AN ISLAND GROUP WANT OF WOOD HON. BENJAMIN GUMBSTHE GOVERNORCONDUCT OF T H E F R E N C H T H E R E — 8UPINENESS OF T H E LAWS- M E T H O D I S T S — P R O J E C T E D IMPROVEMENTSSALT POND -POPULATION -CONDITION OF SLAVES.
On Wednesday afternoon we re-embarked and steered for Anguilla. It was the glorious first of June, and we all drank to the memory of Lord Howe, as in naval duty bound. We passed between St. Eustatius * and Saba, both of them Dutch islands. They rise out of the sea in majestic cones, but, like Nevis, fall away on their north sides into a broken level. We were within a mile of the town in St. Eustatius, which seemed large, and divided into an upper and lower range of houses;.few ships were within the bay, which is a commo* 'The inhabitants of this island live decently and Christianly.'—Davies. There is in the island one church, which hath from time to time been supplyed with very able pastors; of whom one was Mr. May, who, among other writings, put out a learned commentary on the most difficult places of thefivebooks of Moses, wherein there are many curious observations of nature.— Davies. Another of these pastors was Mr. Audain. P