The land is in general very productive, eſpecially in the interior parts, but towards the ſea coaſt, it requires to be frequently manured; becaufe the ſurface of it uſually opens into large chaſms in dry weather, thereby expoſing the ſoil to the exceſſive heat of the ſun; ſo that its vegetative quality can only reſtored by dunging. This, however, is not very eaſily done by the greater part of the planters; becauſe they have not in general a ſufficient number of cattle on their plantations, in proportion to the land under cultivation, of the ſugar cane in particular; from whence, in a great meaſure, and to the want of negroes, is to be attributed the ſmall quantity of ſugar exported from this ſettlement to England.
Several of the mountains of this iſland are continually burning with ſulphur, of which they emit vaſt quantities. From theſe mountains iſſue numbers of ſprings of mine-
