And plant successfully sweet Sharon’s rose
On burning plains, and in eternal snows.”
[8] Among the important improvements, the factory intended to burn coal for fuel, thus saving the waste cane which it was customary to use for that purpose, for manure.
[9] Since the above was written news has arrived of a negro insurrection, and the destruction of nearly every sugar plantation on the island.
[10] A favourite amusement in St. Thomas; a dead horse is towed out behind a boat, and the greedy monsters, eagerly fastening on it, are then harpooned.
[11] Leeward Islands consist of Dominica, Antigua, Montserrat, Nevis, and St. Kitt’s. Windward Islands consist of Barbadoes, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Tobago.
[12] Erythrina umbrosa.
[13] Oreodoxa oleracea; called the mountain-cabbage because within the central spike lies concealed the cabbage, composed of white longitudinal flakes forming a crisp compact body. When cut up into thin ribands and boiled, it is served as a vegetable with meat. As all palm trees possess this eatable spike, it is hard to tell why this species should in particular be called the “cabbage.”
[14] Carolinea.
[15] Brownea.