Six months in the West-Indies, in 1825

61 TRINIDAD. than with a liberal consideration of the feelings of the colored people. These last sit in the area towards the western end, and the difference of their accommodation from that of the whites is scarcely perceptible. This circumstance is creditable to the colony, and might well be imitated in some other of the islands.

There are no aisles, the roof sweeping in an elliptical arch from side to side; the altar, the western door, the organ and staircase, are all in a corresponding style of richness and propriety. It is more than worthy of the town, as it now is; it will be fit for it when it has become a city. When viewed from without, it seems to want height, and though they say it cannot be better than it is, I must own I think the coup d'Ĺ“il of the building and Port of Spain itself would be much improved by a greater elevation of the tower. There would be no impiety in such a thing here as in Barbados, for the hurricanes have never ventured so low as Trinidad *. In another part of the town is an unfinished church for the Romanists; there is no roof as yet, but what is per* I regret exceedingly to hear that earthquakes have visited this island, and that serious injury has been done to this church and the government house.

It is a curious fact in the earthquake of 1826, that a man rode from St. Joseph's to Port of Spain on the day on which it happened without himself perceiving any shock, but upon comparing the times he recollected his horse giving a violent start and trembling in an unaccountable manner.