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SCOTCH ROW.
to take a look at those temples of fashion, fancy, and fascination, commonly known in this island as " Scotch shops," or in other words, Antiguan haberdashery stores. In a particular part of St. John's, running north and south, lies a well-made broad street, which, from being inhabited principally by Scotchmen, is known by the appropriated name of " Scotch Row." Capital stores (when I am at Rome, I like to do as Rome does, and give everything its approved title) flank each side of the street, and display their glittering wares to the admiration of passers-by ; and from whence (with but few exceptions) emanate those dresses and ribbons of a thousand dyes, with which the fair sex of every colour delight to enrobe their lovely forms. Here, as in the merchants' stores, may be found articles of the most opposite natures. In one part lies a delicate white satin bonnet, with its bunches of " orange flowers," to grace the head of some blushing bride, or decorated with the snowy plumes torn by the swarthy African from some swiftfooted ostrich ; while by its side reposes a broken ewer, or an iron pot. You may, in truth, buy anything and everything in these " Scotch shops," from three farthings' worth of tape to the most costly articles. Dresses of all kinds ; ribbons, laces, flowers, and bonnets ; coats, vests, pantaloons, umbrellas, and shoes ; blondes, scarfs, mantelets, perfumery, and tenpenny nails ; paint, frying-pans, and carpets ; jewellery of every description, dripping-pans, and Seidlitz powders ; Epsom salts, ginger-beer, and white lead ; horses' halters, cherry-tree chairs, and preserved fruits ; children's dresses, lanterns, horse-whips, and coffee ; sugar-loaves, saddles, bonnet-shapes, and white-handled knives ; ladies' corsets, Valenciennes edging, and Westphalia hams ; pigs' tongues, truckle cheese, and bird-seed ; dish-covers, bottle-baskets, hooks-and-eyes, and brimstone; harness, cattle medicines, and lozenges ; " Mechian" razor strops, and Metcalf's toothbrushes ; with brandy, champagne, Madeira, sherry, port,