A NATURAL HISTORY O F NEVIS, And the rest of the English Leeward Charibee Iflands IN AMERICA With many other Obfervations on NATURE and ART, Particularly, An Introduction to The Art of Decyphezing. IN Eleven Letters from the Revd Mr. SMITH, CAMBRIDGE: Printed by J. BENTHAM, Printer to the UNIVERSITY; MDCCXLV. 189. F. P. WORTHY GENTLEMEN OF NEVIS, MOTHER of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America. I SIRS, 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 saw moft obfervable in your Climate, and collected many beautiful Sea-Shells, which about nine years after |