A Historical Account of St. Thomas, W. I

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Excerpt from A Historical Account of St. Thomas, W. I: With Its Rise and Progress in Commerce, Missions and Churches, Climate and Its Adaptation to Invalids, Geological Structure, Natural History, and Botany, and Incidental Notices of St. Croix and St. Johns The Author cannot admit the idea that "if a work be good it needs no apology if bad, it deserves none." May there not be an intermediate state between good and bad to which circumstances doom the writings of many, and to which they would gladly have risen superior had it been in their power. He pleads such circumstances. Whilst the torrid zone is wonderfully adapted to the development of the animal and vegetable kingdoms, it is not prolific in books, nor distinguished for cerebral activity. Now the "Historical Account" has been produced within the tropics, and that too, in midsummer, with the thermometer continuously, day and night, at 82°. Beside the author's leisure hours could alone be employed for writing, which probably had been better devoted to rest from the severe labors of a profession and other engagements, which could not be slighted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.