原文 (英语)

Transcribed from the 1864 Chapman & Hall “Tales of All Countries” edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org. MISS SARAH JACK, OF SPANISH TOWN, JAMAICA. There is nothing so melancholy as a country in its decadence, unless it be a people in their decadence.  I am not aware that the latter misfortune can be attributed to the Anglo-Saxon race in any part of the world; but there is reason to fear that it has fallen on an English colony in the island of Jamaica. Jamaica was one of t