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Montserrat and Barbuda are comprised within this government, which I should think a pleasant one. The roads are passable for man and beast, and it is not often that the natives are obliged to drink down to the worms in the tanks. Once, I believe, many years ago, it was necessary to import water from Montserrat, which, being dead to leeward, was rather a precarious source of supply. N.B. ' Antigonian' is not the proper formation of the adjective; it should he Antiguan,' for which there is a conclusive authority in a MS. poem penes me, the work of a distinguished poet of the colony:— All hail, thou prodigy, ne'er seen before, Or on Barbadian, or Antiguan shore !