Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day

CHAPTER XXII.

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Early rising and "Jamie Thomson"--Journey to English Harbour-- Windmills and Don Quixote--Groups of negroes and their equipages--All Saints' chapel of ease--The "Hamlet"--Village of Liberta--Grace Hill--Patterson's and Prince William--English Harbour market--Streets and dwellings--Commissariat's store and government tank--Dockyard--The superintendent--Stores and storehouses--Engineer's workshop--Blacksmith's shop and blowing machine--Limes and roses--Recollections of England--Lieutenant Peterson and Lord Camelford--His lordship's pranks--The ordnance--Clarence House and Dows Hill--The Ridge and "Shirley heights"--Fort Charlotte and Fort Berkeley--Bats Cave--The Savannah and its tombs--Indian Creek--Return to town