Her conversation was intelligent, her manners highly polished, and she presided at the table with admirable grace and dignity.
On the following day, Dr.Ferguson, of St.John's, called on us.

Dr.
Ferguson is a member of the assembly, and one of the first physicians in the island.

The Doctor said that freedom had wrought like a magician, and had it not been for the unprecedented drought, the island would now be in a state of prosperity unequalled in any period of its history.

Dr.
F.remarked that a general spirit of improvement was pervading the island.

The moral condition of the whites was rapidly brightening; formerly concubinage was _respectable_; it had been customary for married men--those of the highest standing--to keep one or two colored mistresses.