The state and prospects of Jamaica: with appended remarks on its advantages for the cure of pulmonary diseases, and suggestions to invalids and others going to that colony / By the Rev. David King.

  • King, David, 1806-1883.
Date:
1850
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Credit: The state and prospects of Jamaica: with appended remarks on its advantages for the cure of pulmonary diseases, and suggestions to invalids and others going to that colony / By the Rev. David King. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    suaded that Jamaica would not, on the whole, gain by concealment, and that the best advo- cacy of its claims is the fullest statement of the truth. Yet I have not felt myself bound to expose and censure whatever seemed to me amiss in the government of religious societies with which I am not connected. From such party crimi- nations I have abstained, in the belief that they could do no good, and that they would likely be productive of mischief. There are cases in which private communication is better fitted than pub- lic disquisition to promote reform. I would have rejoiced to detail the labours of many missionaries, equally able and faithful as those whom I have noticed with commen- dation: but the nature and limits of my work required me to proceed on a principle of selec- tion, and to select the examples best known to myself. When stating unquestioned facts, I have not considered it necessary to crowd my pages with references; but wherever I have come on debateable ground, I have given my autho- rities. I owe much to kind friends of various re-