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��West Indies, and Captain Stedman's Account of Surinam, afford examples of the cruelty, ignorance, sloth, and sen- suality of Creole planters, particularly in Dutch Guiana, which fully equal the epitome of vice and abomination exhibited in these lines.

Note ^ Page 46, lines 1, 2.

Leagued with rapacious rovers of the iniiin, Haytis barbarian hunters harassed Spain. Alluding to the freebooters and buccaneers who infest- fed the Charibbean seas during the sixteenth and seven-. teenth centuries, and were equally renowned for their valour and brutality.

Note '. Ibid., line 1 0. — The appalling mysteries ofOhFs spell. — See Dallas's History of the Maroons, among the mountains of Jamaica ; also, Dr Moseley's Treatise on Sugar.

Note^. Page 47, line 17. — Nor in the majesty of storms alone, &c. — For minute and afflicting details of the origin and progress of the yellow fever in an individual subject, see Dr Pinkard's Notes on the West Indies, Vol. III., particidarly Letter XII,, in which the writer, from expe- rience, describes its horrors and sufierings.

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