Enterprise, public and personal, has long been a stranger to the island.

Internal improvements, such as the laying and repairing of roads, the erection of bridges, building wharves, piers, &c., were either wholly neglected, or conducted in such a listless manner as to be a burlesque on the name of business.

It was a standing task, requiring the combined energy of the island, to repair the damages of one hurricane before another came.

The following circumstance was told us, by one of the shrewdest observers of men and things with whom we met in Barbadoes.

On the southeastern coast of the island there is a low point running far out into the sea, endangering all vessels navigated by persons not well acquainted with the island.
Many vessels have been wrecked upon it in the attempt to make Bridgetown from the windward.