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yams, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven tannias or eddoes, 

 forty-three coffee bushes, some of them in full bearing. Six gardens in 

 another quarter, in manioc, plantains, yams, sweet potatoes, and tannias ; 

 manioc, forty bushels ready for present use, forty bushels more expected 

 from the young plants, eighty- six plantain trees, twenty-five tannias or 

 eddoes six months planted, six bushels of sweet potatoes, and three thou- 

 sand two hundred and fourteen yams of different kinds. In short, the 

 great profusion of animal and vegetable food raised by steady and in- 

 dustrious slaves, and the general comfort of that class of people in the 

 British West Indies, is noticed with considerable surprise by every new 

 visitor. 



Let it not be supposed that the work of religious instruction and 

 emancipation is standing still in the meanwhile : on the contrary, every 

 year produces fresh proofs of the progress of both, and what is very 

 creditable to the planters, two-thirds at least of the manumissions are 

 either by will, or " without any consideration," being exacted, by the 

 master, from the slave. 



Our limits will not, however, permit us to pursue this subject further 

 at present ; and we must conclude by referring such of our readers as are 

 desirous of becoming acquainted with the laws in favour of slaves, to a 

 small abstract, or enumeration of them, lately published by Ridgway,* 

 which so completely gives the lie to the assertions of the anti-colonial 

 party, that we should not be surprised to see " the voice of the country" 

 raised as loudly against them, as it has ever been in their favour. 



* An Abstract of the British West In&ian Statutes, for the Protection and Government 

 of Slaves. London, 1830. 



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