Front matter

Transcriber’s Note:

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HISTORIC JAMAICA

Is it nature or by the error of fantasie that the seeing of places we know to have been frequented or inhabited by men whose memory is esteemed or mentioned in Stories, doth in some sort move and stirre us up as much or more than the hearing of their noble deeds or reading of their compositions?

Montaigne

The care which a nation devotes to the preservation of the monuments of its past may serve as a true measure of the degree of civilization to which it has attained.

Les Archives Principales de Moscou du Ministère

des Affaires Etrangères, Moscow, 1898.

UP-PARK CAMP IN 1840 From a coloured lithograph by Joseph B. Kidd

HISTORIC JAMAICA

BY

FRANK CUNDALL, F.S.A.

SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN OF THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA

WITH FIFTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS

PUBLISHED FOR

THE INSTITUTE OF JAMAICA

BY THE WEST INDIA COMMITTEE

LONDON

1915

Printed by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co. Ltd.

at the Ballantyne Press

London, England

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