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“...JAMAICA 2gi
William Gordon, a coloured member of the Legislative
Council, who was said to have incited the people, was
taken from his estate, Cherry Garden, to Morant Bay,
tried summarily and hanged, thus sharing the fate
of^ many ringleaders. By transferring Gordon from
Kingston, where martial law was not in force, to Morant
Bay, where it was, and then trying him under it,
Governor Eyre committed a technical blunder, but
his firm action saved the island.
At Serge Island Estate, a short drive up the Blue
Mountain Valley, the sugar-canes are ground by electric
power generated by turbines driven by the water of the
Johnson River, which has been dammed, forming a large
lcikc.
Bath, in the parish of St. Thomas (40 miles from King-
ston), boasts the hottest mineral spring in the island. It
can be reached by a bridle road just beyond Morant Bay
or from Port Morant (7J miles farther on), from which it
is 6J miles distant. The road from the town of Bath to
the spa follows...”
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