The light-house is not built to this day.

In personal activity, the Barbadians are as sadly deficient as in public spirit.

London is said to have scores of wealthy merchants who have never been beyond its limits, nor once snuffed the country air.

Bridgetown, we should think, is in this respect as deserving of the name _Little London_ as Barbadoes is of the title "Little England," which it proudly assumes.

We were credibly informed that there were merchants in Bridgetown who had never been off the island in their lives, nor more than five or six miles into the country.