An historical survey of the French Colony in the Island of St Domingo: comprehending a short account of its ancient government ... a narrative of the calamities ... since ... 1789 ... and a detail of the military transactions of the British Army ... to the end of 1794

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Brita^ Edwards Esq?1 £iilj/h:d SefU. 2S. ifCO ly Zchn Sfrc/cdale. PiccadUly . AN HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE ISLtÆME) OF SvAIJ^T JBOÆIWGO, 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; BY BRYAN EDWARDS, ESQ. ALSO, A TOUS THROUGH THE SEVERAL ISLANDS OF BARBADOES, St. VINCENT, ANTIGUA, TOBAGO, and GRENADA. In the Years 1791 and 1792. BY SIR WILLIAM YOUNG, BART. 3IHu0trateti toitf) Copper $Iatc& LONDON : PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY. 1801. C v ] PREFATORY ADVERTISEMENT*. ■ ■ — — — —— ! | ■ O this new and additional Volume of the History of the West Indies, it was the inten tion of the Author to prefix a Preface, touching every source os additional intelligence, every rectifi cation os error, and the general completion os his views, in furnishing every document os commerce, os policy, and os natural history, as connected with the countries and the people he describes.

He had carefully revised and corrected the text os his Book, preparatory to such essay, developing the scheme os its construction, and the philosophy of its contents. But death interrupted the design ; — and ere the last sheet was revised from the press, — Bryan Edwards was no more ! He had long suffered from the disorder which brought him to the grave, * By Sir William Young, Bart. PREFATORY

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