Ree? Oct. 4, 1830.

THE

HISTORY.

OF

BARBADOS,

FROM THE

FIRST DISCOVERY OF THE ISLAND,

IN THE YEAR 1605,

TILL

THE ACCESSION OF LORD SEAFORTH, 1801.

BY JOHN POYER.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN,

22, POULTRY.

1808.

[J. G. Barnard, Printer, Snow-Hill. }

SA2835.4

PREFACE.

THERE is no desire

more natural to the

mind of civilized man, than that of retracing the transactions of former ages. Curiosity stamps a value on the most trifling records of antiquity, and we attend with pleasure to the recital of occurrences, in which we are no longer interested. Like every other affection of the human soul, this propensity gathers strength, and becomes more ardent, as its energies are more concentrated, and its object is more limited. Hence we pursue, with encreased eagerness, the inquiry which leads to the knowledge of those events that have occurred in the country which we claim as our own. To gratify

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