An Historical Survey of the the Island of Saint Domingo, Together With an Account of the Maroon Negroes in the Island of Jamaica: And a History of the ... the Several Islands of St. Vincent, Anti

Excerpt from An Historical Survey of the the Island of Saint Domingo, Together With an Account of the Maroon Negroes in the Island of Jamaica: And a History of the War in the West Indies, in 1793, and 1794; Also, a Tour Through the Several Islands of St. Vincent, Antigua, Tobago, and Grenada, in the Years 1791 and 1792

0 this new and additional Volume of the Hifiory of the Weft Indies, it was the imten tion of the Author to prefix a Preface, touching Jeveny fource of additional intelligence, every rectifi cation: of error, and the general completion of his views, in furniihing every document of commerce, of policy; and of natural'hifiory, as connected with the countries and the people he defcribes. He had carefully re'vifed and corrected the text of his Book, preparatory to fuch ef'ay, developing the 1cheme of its conflruétion, and the philofophy of i s contents. But death interrupted the defign; and ere the lafi fheet was revifed from the preis, -bryan edwards was no more! He had long infi'ered Irom the diforder which brought him to the.

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