Six months in the West-Indies, in 1825

ANTIGUA. ENGLISH HARBOUR - FIGTREE -HILL -VEGETATION— PLANTERS' -HOUSES - CEDAR -HILL — ST. -JOHN'S— JAIL -COURT HOUSE -SCHOOLS -AFRICAN FREE APPRENTICES -FOSSILS -PARISH CHURCHES -MORAVIANS - METHODISTS - ANIMAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. THE Eden was under weigh at two P . M . , on the 3d of June. We ran back the same course to leeward of St. Martin's and St. Bartholomew's, and beat out to windward of St. Eustatius with the wind E.S.E. It was hard work the whole way to English Harbour, where we arrived on Monday evening, the 6th, a little before sunset. We should not have managed the matter as it was, if we had not carried on in spite of a succession of sharp squalls, which made our royal masts bend like weeping willows. The entrance is exceedingly narrow, and every preparation was made to moor the ship in the event of the wind baffling her. An attempt to tack would infallibly run a vessel ashore. However, we glided in gently to our berth between the two quays of the dockyard, and fastened the ship by hawsers to rings on the shore on either side.

This is, without exception, the prettiest little harbour I ever saw. The extreme neatness of the docks, the busy village which has grown up