Antigua


An historical, commercial and philosophical view of the American United States and of the European Settlements in America and the West Indies ( 1795) by William Winterbotham

Antiqua is situated about twenty league east of St Chris topher's in west longitude 620 5 and north latitude 170 30 It is about fifty miles in circumference a1d is reckoned the largest of all the British Leeward islands.

This island has neither stream nor spring of fresh water this in convience which rendered it uninhabitable to the Caribbees deterred for some time Europeans from attempting a permanent establisliment upon it but few if any are the obstacles of Nature which civilised man will not overcome more especially when interest spurs him on. The soil of Antigua was found to be fertile and it soon presented itself to the view of enterprising genius that by means of cisterns the necessity of springs and streams might be superseded. Hence as early as 1632 a son of Sir Thomas Warner and a number of other Englishmen settled here and began the cultivation of tobacco In 1674 Colonel Codrington of Barbadoes removed to this island and succeeded so well in the culture of sugar that animated by his example and aided by his experience many others engaged in the same line of business.

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Quotations
 Chapter 3 
“Why, you know, Sir Thomas’s means will be rather straitened if the Antigua estate is to make such poor returns.”
 Chapter 3 
“These opinions had been hardly canvassed a year before another event arose of such importance in the family, as might fairly claim some place in the thoughts and conversation of the ladies. Sir Thomas found it expedient to go to Antigua himself, for the better arrangement of his affairs, and he took his eldest son with him, in the hope of detaching him from some bad connexions at home.
 Chapter 4 
The earliest intelligence of the travellers’ safe arrival at Antigua, after a favourable voyage, was received; though not before Mrs. Norris had been indulging in very dreadful fears, and trying to make Edmund participate them whenever she could get him alone;
 Chapter 4 
THe wrote in April, and had strong hopes of settling everything to his entire satisfaction, and leaving Antigua before the end of the summer.
 Chapter 11 
The day at Sotherton, with all its imperfections, afforded the Miss Bertrams much more agreeable feelings than were derived from the letters from Antigua, which soon afterwards reached Mansfield.
 Chapter 19 
She had found a seat, where in excessive trembling she was enduring all these fearful thoughts, while the other three, no longer under any restraint, were giving vent to their feelings of vexation, lamenting over such an unlooked–for premature arrival as a most untoward event, and without mercy wishing poor Sir Thomas had been twice as long on his passage, or were still in Antigua.
 Chapter 19 
His business in Antigua had latterly been prosperously rapid, and he came directly from Liverpool, having had an opportunity of making his passage thither in a private vessel, instead of waiting for the packet;
 Chapter 25 
He passed, however, for an admirer of her dancing; and Sir Thomas, by no means displeased, prolonged the conversation on dancing in general, and was so well engaged in describing the balls of Antigua, and listening to what his nephew could relate of the different modes of dancing which had fallen within his observation, that he had not heard his carriage announced, and was first called to the knowledge of it by the bustle of Mrs. Norris.
 Chapter 48 
His opinion of her had been sinking from the day of his return from Antigua: in every transaction together from that period, in their daily intercourse, in business, or in chat, she had been regularly losing ground in his esteem, and convincing him that either time had done her much disservice, or that he had considerably over–rated her sense, and wonderfully borne with her manners before.
 

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