C H A P T E R V. MONTSERRAT. I2th Month,
\6th,
(December.)
1836.
W E made the short passage from Antigua to Mont serrat in the night, and landed early this morning at Plymouth, the town and port of the island. We met here HENRY LOVING, Esq., who was filling temporarily the office of Island Secretary. He is known in Eng land as the delegate of the people of color in Antigua, and the able and successful advocate of their claims. We were also introduced to FRANCIS BURKE, a gentle man of uncommon intelligence and enterprize ; he has been the importer of the Acasee seeds into England, which we have before mentioned as possessing the quality of Aleppo galls. The speculation failed, in consequence, as he believes, of the mismanagement of the party to whose care they were consigned. He has also been concerned in working the Souffi'ieres in Mont serrat and Dominica. The ore in the latter contains seventy-two per cent of sulphur ; in the former it is less pure. It has been shipped to America at a cost, on board, of four dollars per ton. The expense of freight forbids its being sent to England. His attention is at present occupied with the introduction of mulberry trees and silkworms. These succeed well in the neigh bouring French colony of Guadaloupe, where several