A Natural History of Nevis, and the Rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America : With Many Other Observations on Nature and Art

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Several years after his return from the Caribbean island of Nevis, the English clergyman William Smith wrote a series of letters to Charles Mason, the Woodwardian Professor of Fossils at Cambridge. Published in 1745, they discuss the island's flora and fauna as well as Smith's various other interests, including cryptography.