A

NATURAL HISTORY

OF

NEVI S,

And the rest of the

English Leeward Charibee Islands

IN

AMERICA

With many other Obfervations on

NATURE and ART

Particularly, An Introduction to

The Art of Decyphering.

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Eleven Letters from the Revd Mr. SMITH,
sometime Rector of St. John's at NEVIS, and
now Rector of St. Mary's in BEDFORD; to the
Revd Mr. MASON, B. D. Woodwardian
Profeffor, and Fellow of Trinity-College, in
Cambridge.

CAMBRIDGE:

Printed by J. BENTHAM, Printer to the UNIVERSITY;
and fold by W. THURLBOURN in Cambridge; S. BIRT
in Ave-Maria-Lane, C. BATHURST in Fleet-Street, and
J. BEECROFT in Lombard-Street, LONDON.

MDCCXLV.

189. f. P.

Y GENTLEMEN

OF

NEVIS,

MOTHER of the

English Leeward Charibee Islands

in America.

SIRS,

I

Often reflect with fingular Pleasure, upon the five happy Years that I was Rector of St. John's Parish in your Country, and do with the utmost Gratitude acknowledge the Favours I received from You all.

I then kept a Book of Remarks upon what I faw moft obfervable in your Climate, and collected many beautiful Sea-Shells, which about nine years after

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