lony of Marseillese, 340 years B. C. and named Antipolis. It suffered severely from the Saracens, and now contains about 500 houses, with 5270 inhabitants, who are chiefly employed in the sardel fishery, and in the manufactory of earthenware. It is an important barrier fortress on the side of Italy, and was besieged without effect by the Austrians and English in 1747. The harbour is about 1012 feet long, 270 broad, and 4050 in circumference. The trade of the place is of little consequence, but it contains a number of Roman antiquities, and is the chief town of a canton. Antibes is remarkable for being the only place where the French soldiers refused to join Buonaparte on his landing from Elba in 1815. Lon. 7o 11 E., lat. 43° 35' N. ANTIBIBLOS, in civil law, an instrument or signature whereby the defendant owns he has received the libel, or a copy of it, and notes the day whereon he received it. This is usually done on the back of the libel. ANTIBURGHER SECEDERS, a numerous and respectable body of dissenters from the church of Scotland, who differ from the established church chiefly in matters of church government, and who differed from Burgher Seceders, with whom they were originally united, chiefly if not solely respecting the lawfulness of taking the burgess oath. For an account of their origin and principles, see SECEDERS. ANTICADMIA, a species of mineral cadmia, sometimes also called pseudo-cadmia. It takes this denomination, not as being opposite in quality to the cadmia, but because it is used as a substitute for it. ANTICARDIUM, in anatomy; from avrı, and καρδια, the heart; that hollow part under the breast, just against the heart, commonly called the pit of the stomach: called also scrobiculus cordis. ANTICATARRHAL, an epithet given to medicines prescribed for catarrhs. ANTİCATEGORIA, in oratory, denotes a recrimination or mutual accusation; where the two parties charge each other with the same crime. Apollodorus considers the anticategoria as two several causes or actions. ANTICAUSOTICS, among physicians, meANTICHEIR, in anatomy; αντιχειρ; the Greek name for the pollex, or thumb. dicines against hot fevers. ANTICOLICA; from αντι and χολικος; medicines against the colic. ANTICHORUS, in botany; a genus of the monogynia order, and octandria class of plants, of which the essential characters are: CAL. a four-leaved perianthium: cor. four expanding petals: PERICARP. a capsule, above, subulated, with four cells, and four valves: the seeds very numerous. There is but one species-A. pressus, a native of Arabia. ANTICHRESIS, in the civil law, a covenant or convention, whereby a person borrowing money of another, engages or makes over his lands or goods to the creditor, with the use and occupation thereof, for the interest of the money lent; it was allowed by the Romans, among whom usury was prohibited: and was afterwards called mortgage, to distinguish it from a simple engagement, where the fruits of the ground were not alienated. ANTICHRIST, among ecclesiastical writers, denotes a great adversary of Christianity, who is to appear upon the earth towards the end of the world. There have been demonstrations, disputations, and proofs, in great number, both that the pope is, and that he is not antichrist. F. Calmet is very full in describing the father and mother of antichrist, his tribe and pedigree, his wars and conquests, his achievements against Gog, Magog, &c. Some place his capital at Constantinople, others at Jerusalem, others at Moscow, and some at London; but the generality at Rome, though these last are divided. Grotius and some others suppose Rome pagan to have been the seat of antichrist, and Caligula or Nero the person: most of the Lutheran and reformed doctors contend earnestly for Rome Christian, under the papal hierarchy. In fact, the point having been maturely debated at the council of Gap held in 1603, a resolution was taken thereupon to insert an article in the confession of faith, whereby the pope is formally declared to be antichrist.-Pope Clement VIII. was stung to the quick with this decision; and even king Henry IV. of France was not a little mortified to be thus declared, as he said, an imp of antichrist. M. le Clerc holds, that the rebel Jews and their leader Simon, whose history is given by Josephus, are to be reputed as the true antichrist. Lightfoot and Vanderhart rather apply this character to the Jewish sanhedrim Hippolitus and others held, that the devil himself was the true antichrist; that he was to be incarnate, and make his appearance in human shape before the consummation of all things.Father Malvenda, a Jesuit, published a large work entitled Antichristo, in which he relates all the opinions of the fathers with regard to antichrist; and finally contends that he is to be a Jew, of the tribe of Dan. Hannius and some others have written upon the unity of antichrist, and assert that there is to be both an eastern and a western antichrist. How endless are conjectures! Some of the Jews, we are told, actually took Cromwell for the Christ; while some others have laboured to prove him anti christ himself! Psaffius assures us, he saw a folio book in the Bodleian library, written on purpose to demonstrate this latter position. Modern writers have added to the conjectures respecting antichrist: Mr. Faber finds one in revolutionary France; and some obscurer interpreters have awarded that honour, we believe, to Buonaparte personally. Upon the whole, the antichrist mentioned by the apostle John, 1 Epist. ii. 18. and more particularly described in the book of Revelations, seems evidently to be the same with the Man of Sin, &c. characterised by St. Paul in his second epistle to the Thessalonians, chap. ii. And the entire description literally applies to the excesses of papal power. Had the right of private judgment, says an excellent writer, been always adopted and maintained, antichrist could never have been; and when the sacred right comes to be universally asserted, and men follow the voice of their own reason and consciences, antichrist can be no more. ANTICHTHON ; from αντι, and χθων, earth; kinds of anticipation in music: first, in passing in ancient astronomy, a globe of earth resembling ours, and supposed to be moving round the sun, but invisible to us, because on the opposite side; that luminary being always exactly interposed between this other earth and ours. This idea was asserted by Pythagoras and his disciples, as is testified by Aristotle, Plutarch, &c. They reasoned from the supposed perfection of the number ten, and concluded there must be just so many spheres; and as our senses only discover nine, viz. the seven planets, the sphere of the fixed stars, and our earth, they imagined a tenth opposite to ours. Some of the fathers, who endeavoured to accommodate the doctrine of the heathen philosophers to those of Christianity, assert that this Pythagorean earth is no other than the heavens of the righteous. ANTICTHONES, or ANTIGEN, in geography, those who inhabit countries diametrically opposite to each other. In which sense it is synonymous with what we more usually call antipodes. ANTICIPATE, Anticipo, from ante, be- possess or to take mentally before the act has been performed, or the event has happened in the order of time: to have beforehand, to forestal, to prevent, This payment was called an anticipation, which is to say a thing taken, or a thing comyng before his tyme or season. This terme was new to ye cominaltie, but thei payd wel for their learnying, for their money was paied out of hand wout delay. Hall. Henry VIII. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits; The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Shakspeare. God hath taken care to anticipate and prevent every man, to draw him early into his church; to give piety the pre-possession, and so to engage him in holiness. Hammond, If our apostle had maintained such an anticipating principle, engraven upon our souls before all exercise of reason; why did he talk of seeking the Lord, seeing that the knowledge of him was innate and perpetual? Bentley. ANTICIPATION; from ante, before, and capio, I take; in logic, a presumption, prejudice, or preconceived opinion. ANTICIPATION, in medicine, is applied to diseases, wherein some of those symptoms which regularly belong to some future period, appear in the beginning. ANTICIPATION, in philosophy, denotes the first idea of a thing, without which we can neither name, think, doubt, or even enquire concerning it. It is also denominated prenotion, and in this sense makes the second of Epicurus's criterions of truth. ANTICIPATION, in rhetoric, a figure otherwise called prolepsis. ANTICIPATION, in music. A sound is said to be anticipated, when a composer wishes a note to be heard before its time, in plain counterpoint. Anticipation, in the treble, requires suspension in the base, and è contra. There are several VOL. II.-PART II. notes, of which no notice is taken in the base; but this must be done diatonically, not by distant intervals or leaps. Secondly, when the chord is struck on a rest, before the base. Thirdly, in serious and fundamental discords that are to be regularly prepared and resolved, the anticipation in the treble is striking the second before it becomes a third, by the descent of the base. And anticipation in the base, or inferior parts, is when the base rises before the treble falls; as from the eighth to the seventh, or tenth, (octave of the third,) to the ninth. ANTICK, v. n. & adj. AN'TICKLY, to be the Supposed t Latin antiquus, an cient; and therefore exhibiting habits and forms differing from the actual mode; old fashions, grotesque, uncouth; like a buffoon, odd, singular. At the entrying into the palace before the gate, on the plaine greene, was buylded a fountaine of embowed worke, gulte with fyne golde, and bice ingrayled wyth anticke workes, the olde god of wyne called Baccus birlying the wyne, which by the conduytes in the earth ranne to alle people plentiously with red, white, and claret wines. Grafton, v. 2. p. 303. HIP. 'Tis strange, my Theseus, what these lovers speak of. THES. More strange than true. I never may believe Shakspeare. Midsummer Night's Dream. K. RICH. For within the hollow crown Shakspeare. K. Rich. II. But let my due feet never fail Milton. ANTIC, in sculpture and painting, a fantastical composure of figures of different natures, sexes, &c. as men, beasts, birds, flowers, fishes, and things merely imaginary. It amounts to much the same thing with what the Italians call grotesca, and the French grotesque. ANTICLEA, in classical history, a daughter of Autolycus and Amphithea. Her father, a famous robber, permitted Sisyphus, son of Æolus, to enjoy the favors of his daughter, and Anticlea was really pregnant of Ulysses when she married Laertes king of Ithaca. Laertes was nevertheless the reputed father of Ulysses. Ulysses is reproached by Ajax in Ovid's Metamorphoses as being the son of Sisyphus. It is said that Anticlea killed herself when she heard a false report of her son's death. - Homer. Odys. xi. 19. ANTICNEMION; from αντι, and κνημη, the shin-bone; in anatomy, the shin, or the fore prominent part of the tibia. ANTICOR, or ANTICOEUR, among horses, an inflammation in a horse's throat, is the same with the quinsy in mankind. See FARRIERY. 2 C ANTICOSTI, an uninhabited island of considerable size at the mouth of the river St. Lawrence, included in the government of Newfound land. Its eastern point is in 62° W. long. and N. lat. 49° 5'. Its west point in W. long. 64° 35' and N. lat. 49° 48'. Throughout its entire extent of 125 miles in length and 30 in breadth, it possesses not a single harbour where a vessel can safely ride. The forest wood that is found on it is stunted in growth; and the climate from its severity, and the soil from its general unfruitfulness, have hitherto deterred the British authorities from attempting a permanent settlement here. The French are said to have formed an establishment on the island during their possession of Canada; no trace of it however now remains: but in 1809 two officers were appointed to reside at different parts of the coast to relieve vessels in distress, receive shipwrecked mariners, &c. ANTICUM, in architecture, a porch before a door; also that part of a temple which is called the outer temple, and lies between the body of the temple and the portico. It is sometimes called antæ. ANTICYRA, in ancient geography, a town in Phocis, on the Corinthian bay, opposite to Cirrha, to the west on the same bay. The Phocians seizing the temple of Apollo at Delphi, a war, called the sacred, commenced, and lasted ten years; when Philip, father of Alexander the Great, avenged the god by destroying many of the cities of the pillagers. Anticyra was one of them. It was again taken and subverted by Attilius, a Roman general, in the war with the Macedonians. It afterwards became famous for its hellebore. This drug was the root of a plant, the chief produce of the rocky mountains above the city, and of two kinds; the black, which had a purgative quality; and the white, which was an emetic. Sick persons resorted to Anticyra to take the medicine, which was prepared there by a peculiar and very excellent recipe: hence the adage, Naviget Anticyram. By the port in the second century was a temple of Neptune, not large, but built with selected stones, and the inside white-washed; the statue of brass. The agora or market-place was adorned with images of the same metal; and above it was a well with a spring, sheltered from the sun by a roof supported by columns. A little higher was a monument formed with such stones as occurred, and designed, it was said, for the son of Iphitus. One of these, Schedius, was killed by Hector, while fighting for the body of Patroclus, but his bones were transported to Anticyra; where his brother died after his return from Troy. About two stadia, or a quarter of a mile distant, was a high rock, a portion of the mountain on which a temple of Diana stood, the image, a gigantic woman made by Praxiteles. The walls and other edifices at Anticyra were probably erected, like the temple of Neptune, with stones or pebbles. The site is now called Asprospitia, or The White Houses; and some traces of the buildings from which it was so named remain. The port is land-locked, and frequented by vessels for corn. Some paces up from the sea is a fountain. ANTIDACTYLUS ; from αντι, and δακτυλος, dactyl; a name given by some to the anapæst, which is the reverse of a dactyl, and consists of two short syllables and one long: e. g. pietās. ANTIDÆMONICA; from αντι, and δαιμον, dæmon; in ecclesiastical history, a sect who denied the existence of devils, or evil spirits; also all spectres, incantations, witchrafts, &c. ANTIDESMA, in botany, a genus of the diœcia order, and pentandria class of plants. CAL. of the male five-leaved; no corolla; the antheræ bifid: female CAL. five-leaved; the corolla wanting: STIGM. five; the berry cylindric and one-seeded. There is but one species, viz. A. alexiteria, a native of India. ANTIDICOMARIANITES; from αντίδικος, adversary, and Mαρια, Mary; an ancient sect, esteemed heretics, who denied the perpetual virginity of the virgin Mary, and asserted that she had several children by Joseph after our Saviour's birth. They were the disciples of Helvidius and Jovinian, and appeared in Rome towards the close of the fourth century. ANTIDORON, in ecclesiastical writers, a name given by the Greeks to the consecrated bread, out of which the middle part marked with the cross, wherein the consecration resides, being taken away by the priest, the remainder is distributed after mass to the poor. On the sides of the antidoron are impressed the words Jesus Christus vicit. The word is formed from δωρον, donum, a gift, as being given away loco muneris, or in charity. The antidoron is also called panis præsanctificatus. ANTIDOSIS; from αντι, and διδωμι, to give; in antiquity, denotes an exchange of estates, practised by the Greeks on certain occasions, with peculiar ceremonies, and first instituted by Solon. When a person was nominated to an office, the expense of which he was not able to support, he had recourse to the antidosis; that is, he was to seek some other citizen of better substance than himself, who was free from this and other offices, in which case the former was excused. In case the person thus substituted denied himself to be the richest, they were to exchange estates after this manner: the doors of their houses were close shut up and sealed that nothing might be conveyed away; then both took an oath to make a faithful discovery of all their effects, except what lay in the silver mines, which by the laws was excused from all imposts; accordingly, within three days, a full discovery and exchange of estates were made. ANTIDOTARY is used by some writers for a dispensatory. We have antidotaries of several authors, as those of Meuse, Rhasis, &c. from AN'TIDOTE, v. & n.) Αντι, against, and ·δοτον, thing given to prevent the effects of what has been already received; a preventive; a counterpoison. Particular discontents and grievances are either of body, minde, or fortune, which, as they wound the soul of man, produce this melancholy and many great inconveniences, by that antidote of good counsell and perswasion may be eased or expelled. Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy. The universal antidote for all the judgments of God is our humble repentance. Hall's Contemplations. To wake thy dead devotion was my point; And how I bless night's consecrating shades, Which to a temple turn an universe; Fill us with great ideas, full of heaven, And antidote the pestilential carth. ANTIGONEA, or ANTIGONIA, in ancient geography, 1. A city of Bithynia, so called from Young's Complaint. Night 9th. Antigonus the son of Philip, and afterwards Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays More than you rob. Shakspeare. What fool would believe that antidote, delivered by Pierius, against the sting of a scorpion? to sit upon an ass, with one's face towards his tail. Brown's Vulgar Errors. Poison will work against the stars: beware; For ev'ry meal an antidote prepare. Dryden jun. Thus am I doubly arm'd, my death and life, Addison's Cato, The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. Rambler. ANTIDOTE. The Indian physic consists much in the use of antidotes. The root mungo, and the viper-stone, are held sovereign antidotes against the bite of the cobra di capello, and other venomous creatures. ANTIENNE, in music, the commencement of a chant; preliminary verse of a psalm; a species of prelude. Each church mode is announced by an antienne; and each antienne has its peculiar mode for the purpose of blending itself with the following chant or psalm. In order to ascertain the mode peculiar to those psalms which do not always commence with the tonic, the cadence is indicated by the word evove. The connexion of the antienne with the following psalm is expressed in ancient Roman Catholic music by a figure of two notes, and the word evovæ is written to show the commencement of the cadence, which governs the key or mode. But this rule is not strictly adhered to in the compositions of plain chant of later date. Rousseau, in his Dictionary of Music, simply says, That the antiennes have been thus called because they were sung originally by two choirs answering each other alternately, and that under this title was understood the anonce to the hymns and psalms sung in churches. ANTIGENIDAS, a celebrated Greek musician of Thebes, and flute master to Alcibiades, until his pupil discarded the instrument on account of the distortion it produced in his countenance. Antigenidas is said to have held the taste of the commonalty in such contempt, that hearing a flute player at a distance saluted with a violent burst of applause, he observed, 'There must be something very bad in that man's performance, or those people would not be so lavish of their approbation. ANTIGGA, PUNTA DE LA, a cape on the north coast of the island of Guadaloupe. ANTIGNY, a town in the Swiss canton of Fribourg, eight miles S. W. of the town of that name. ANTIGONE, in fabulous history, the daughter of Edipus king of Thebes, who led her father when blind and banished. She was slain Nicæa. 2. In Epirus, to the north of the Montes Ceraunii, opposite the city of Oricum. 3. In Arcadia, so called in honor of king Antigonus. 4. In Macedonia, in the territory of Mygdoma. 5. In Chalcidice, in Macedonia, on the east side of the Sinus Thermaicus. 6. In Syria, built b, Antigonus, not far from Antioch, on the Orontes; but soon after destroyed by Seleucus, who removed the inhabitants to Seleucia, a town built by him. And 7. One in Troas, called Alexandrea, in Pliny's time. took ANTIGONUS, king of Asia, one of the captains of Alexander the Great, was the son of Philip, a Macedonian nobleman. Upon the death of Alexander, when a division of the provinces place, Pamphylia, Lycia, and Phrygia Ph Major, fell to his lot; and after the death of Perdiccas that of Lycaonia was added. He was entrusted with the command of the Macedonian household troops, and when Eumenes was declared a public enemy, he was ordered to prosecute the war against him with the utmost vigor. Eumenes was defeated at the beginning of this war, and forced to retire with 600 brave followers to an inaccessible castle on a rock; and his friends, having assembled a new army for his relief, were also routed by Antigonus, whose ambitious projects began now to be manifest. After Antipater's death, Polysperchon succeeding as tutor to the young king of Macedon, Antigonus aspired at the lordship of all Asia. The power of Eumenes made Antigonus greatly desire his interest; but that faithful commander, escaping from the fortress in which he was blockaded, raised an army, and was appointed the royal general in Asia. In conjunction with the governors of Upper Asia, he was successful in several engagements against Antigonus; but was at last betrayed and put to death, and the governors who had joined him submitted to Antigonus. After this, seizing the treasures at Babylon, Seleucus fled to Ptolemy, with whom, and Lysimachus and Cassander, he entered into a confederacy for the purpose of curbing the power of Antigonus. But the latter, with his son Demetrius, prevailed in subduing Syria and Phœnicia, in forcing the Nabathæan Arabs near Judea to his terms, and in expelling Seleucus from Babylon. Upon which the confederates were obliged to allow him the possession of all Asia, except the Greek cities, which were to continue free. This treaty was soon violated; and Ptolemy made a successful descent in Lower Asia, and on some islands of the Archipelago, but was defeated by Demetrius, who took Cyprus with many prisoners. On this victory Antigonus assumed the title of king, and bestowed the same on his son; and from this time, A.A.C. 306, his reign in Asia, Ptolemy's in Egypt, and Alexander's other captains in their governments, properly commence. He had not long borne this title when Cassander, Seleucus, and Lysimachus, again combining against him, defeated the forces under him and his son at Ipsus; and in this battle he fell, in the eighty-fourth year of his age, A.A.C. 301. Antigonus was ardent in his passions, and often used improper means for their gratification; but he was a sagacious, active, brave, and fortunate warrior, and in private concerns strictly just. ANTIGONUS, king of Judea, the son of Aristobulus. He entered into an alliance with the king of the Parthians and besieged Jerusalem. He cut off his uncle Hyrcanus's ears to incapacitate him for the high-priesthood, and put Joseph, Herod's brother, to death. At length Herod took him and sent him to Mark Antony; who to gratify Herod cut off his head, and thereby extinguished the Asmonean race, who had reigned 126 years. This happened A.A.C. 36. ANTIGONUS GONATAS, son of Demetrius Poliorcetes, and grandson of Antigonus king of Asia. He was eminently distinguished by his filial affection, humanity, and mild disposition. At his father's death, which he greatly lamented, he succeeded him in all his European dominions, as well as in the kingdom of Macedon and other cities in Greece. The Gauls having invaded his country, he defeated and expelled them; but not long after Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, routed him. Yet when Pyrrhus was slain at Argos, and his head brought to Antigonus by his son, he was much displeased; and covering it with his robe, ordered the body to be searched for and honorably interred. His kind treatment of Helenus, the son of that unfortunate king who had fallen into his hands, was equally singular. The taking of the city of Corinth by intrigue was the meanest action of his reign, but by this he maintained the freedom of the small states of Greece and enlarged his own dominions. By cultivating the arts of peace, he not only secured the affections of his subjects to himself, but to his descendants. His designs were opposed by the Achæans, headed by Aratus, who recovered Corinth; but he pursued his plan, and left his kingdom in peace about the eightieth year of his life and thirty-fourth of his reign, A.A.C. 243, and was succeeded by his son Demetrius II. ANTIGONUS the Second, surnamed Doson, king of Macedonia, the son of Antigonus I. succeeded his brother Demetrius II., A. A. C. 225; and was soon after chosen commander-in-chief of the Achæan forces by sea and land. The league being greatly strengthened by the accession of the Epirotes, Bœotians, Phocians, Arcadians, and Thessalians, Cleomenes III. king of Sparta, raised a great army to oppose Antigonus; but being deserted by his allies, the Argives, he was obliged to retreat to defend his own kingdom after destroying Megalopolis. Antigonus, after taking a number of cities, completely defeated Cleomenes at Selasia, who fled to Egypt after the battle, leaving Lacedæmon open to the victorious army, A.A.C. 221. Antigonus, however, used his victory with great moderation, giving the Spartans a free republican government, and restoring their ancient laws, which their late sovereign had greatly altered. After this the barbarians having attacked Macedonia, Antigonus returned and put them to flight, but did not long eniov his good fortune, for he died next year and was succeeded by his nephew Philip VI. A.A.C. 220. ANTIGRAPHE; from avrı, and γραφω, Ι write; in antiquity, denotes a law-suit about kindred, whereby a person claimed relation to a particular family. ANTIGRAPHUS, in antiquity, an officer of Athens who kept a counterpart of the apodecti, or chief treasurer's accounts, to prevent mistakes, and keep them from being falsified. ANTIGRAPHUS, in ecclesiastical writers, an abbreviator of the papal letters, in which sense the word is used by pope Gregory the Great in his register. ANTIGRAPHUS, or ARCHIGRAPHUS, in writers of the middle age, a secretary or chancellor so called, on account of his writing answers to the letters sent to his master. ANTIGRAPHUS is also used by Isidorus for one of the notes of sentences marked with a dot, to denote diversity of sense in translations. ANTIGUA, formerly written Antigoa and Antega, one of the largest of the Leeward Carribee islands, and the residence of the governor or captain general. It lies about ten leagues north-east of Montserrat, and twenty east of St. Christopher; is upwards of fifty miles in eircumference and contains according to Edwards 59,838 acres of land, an estimate followed in 1813 by Mr. Colquhoun. Of these, 44,838 acres are in a state of cultivation; 34,000 of them being laid out in sugar plantations; tobacco, cotton, and wool, are the other staple productions of the island, which also has some good pasturage, and grows large quantities of provisions in favorable seasons. The numbers of slaves in this island were reported by the Privy Council, in 1788, as amounting to 36,000; in 1817 there were but 31,451: the free blacks 438, the free people of color 1747, and the whites, exclusive of troops, 2102. Edwards considered the island to be in a declining state at the period of the publication of his valuable work; but it is remarkable that since the abolition of the slave trade, i. e. from 1807 to the present period, the slaves have multiplied to the number of about an additional 1200. 19 The soils of the island are a black mould on a substratum of clay, and a stiff clay on a substratum of marl. When the former is sufficiently irrigated it is extremely rich, but the island occasionally subject to excessive droughts, and contains not one single rivulet or spring. The latter description of soil is less productive, and so much over-run with an irradicable species of grass that some estates, once in tolerable cultivation, have been entirely abandoned, and others converted into pasture lands, as a dernier resort. It is not possible from these causes to obtain any regular estimate of the annual quantity of sugar and other productions growing in Antigua. They vary into all proportions: in 1779 were shipped 3,382 hogsheads, and 579 tierces: in 1782, 15,102 hogsheads and 1,600 tierces: in the years 1770, 1773, and 1778, there were no crops, severe droughts having destroyed all the canes and nearly exposed the negroes to absolute famine. The climate is warmer than that of Barbadoes, and fully as much exposed to hurricanes. The abbé Raynal thinks that a good season should produce eighteen or twenty millions' weight of raw sugar and a proportionable quantity of rum: Mr. Edwards thought 17,000 |