On March 4, 1801, the House of Assembly resolved, “That a Committee be appointed to visit Constant Spring estate in Liguanea, on Monday, the 9th instant, to inspect what improvements Dr. Higgins has effected there in the manufacture of sugar and rum, and to report their opinion thereon to the House.” [Illustration: RAYMOND HALL ] On the 13th of that month the Committee made a lengthy report, in which it stated that: “As Doctor Higgins has exemplified practically what theoretically he has detailed in print, the Committee deem it unnecessary to lay before the House in their report a more particular account of what they have seen and so satisfactorily approve. “That the Committee lament that they have to state to the House that the infirm state of Doctor Higgins’s health obliges him to return to England this year; his assiduous and indefatigable exertions, both of body and mind, in the public service ever since his arrival, of which every gentleman with whom he has by turns resided is a witness, have been too much for his weak frame and advanced years, and render the change of climate necessary.” “The observations and Advices for the Improvement of Muscavado Sugar and Rum by Bryan Higgins, M.D.,” was published in the “Columbian Magazine” in Kingston in 1798. Constant Spring forms part of the scene of a tale by Captain Brooke-Knight, entitled “The Captain’s Story, or Adventures in Jamaica Thirty Years Ago,” which appeared in the “Leisure Hour,” illustrated by (Sir) John Gilbert, in 1859–60, and was afterwards published in book form with the same illustrations about 1880, under the title “The Captain’s Story, or Jamaica Sixty Years Since.” At the time of the story (1832) Constant Spring, which is in it called “Running Water,” was, as is mentioned above, the property of Mrs. Cargill; and Judge Jasper Farmer Cargill figures in the work as Mr. Jasper. The author, Captain Brooke-Knight, who appears as Lieutenant Brook, married Miss Marston.