To dust and suffocating heats, Well pleas’d, we bade adue; To taste your garden’s rural sweets,[9] And pay respects to you. Peace to this calm, sequester’d seat, Where art and nature vie, To decorate your lov’d retreat, And charm the mental eye. But who its beauty can disclose, Who paint its gay array? What friendly muse will interpose And aid an artless lay? From this sweet spot; when æther’s clear, Rich culture breathing round, “Cuba’s” blue distant hills appear,[10] The prospect’s utmost bound. Whilst you such constant care employ, And genuine taste impart, No wonder it should thus Decoy, And captivate the heart. Yet, tho’ the scene does greatly please, You greater joy dispence, Conversing with convivial ease, And solid, sterling sense. Far from the world’s alluring ills And folly’s wide controul, Here candid Contemplation fills And elevates your soul. Footnote 9: This delightful spot, to which art and nature seemed to have conspired, in imparting the brightest touches of beauty and sublimity to the surrounding scenery, is situate in the higher part of the St. Mary’s Mountains, and at present in possession of Henry Archbould, Esq. It was denominated the “Decoy,” from the various attractions it possessed, and the interest it maintained in the breast of its numerous visitors. The garden is represented as the burial-place of that respectable but unfortunate family the Prices. Footnote 10: From its elevated situation, the island of Cuba is said to be distinctly seen in a clear day; a prospect, however, commanded by many other mountainous settlements on that side of the Island. In the same magazine appears a poem by Sir Charles Price entitled “Resignation.” One of the twelve verses may suffice: It was Heaven’s Almighty decree, You will say, then, why should I repine? Tho’ in this we perhaps may agree, Have you ever felt anguish like mine. Long says of St. Mary: “The weather in this parish is extremely wet during great parts of the year, and so cold, that few if any of the houses are unfurnished with a chimney.” In writing of the Decoy he says: