XX CONTENTS 



tAGE. 



Salt Ponds 558 



Regulations of 1781 559 



Introduction of Long Leases . . . , 561 



Enslavement of Bahama Negroes . '. 563 



Condition of Labor 565 



Quiet reigns in the Colony 566 



Governor Mathew and Archdeacon Trew 567 



Later History of the Bahamas 569 



The Separation of the Turks Lslands from the Bahamas 569 



The Public Burial-grounds 571 



The Bahamas a Bishopric 573 



Commercial Conditions 573 



Blockade-running 573 



State of Finances 577 



DiSENDOWMENT OF THE ESTABLISHED ChURCH 578 



The Educational Establishment 579 



Conclusion 582 



SOME GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS RELATING TO THE BAHAMA 



ISLANDS. By George Burbank Shattuck, Ph. D 587 



Introduction 587 



Area and Population 589 



Currency and Banking Facilities 590 



Facilities of Communication 591 



Important Industries 592 



The Sponge-fishery 592 



Agricultural Pursuits 593 



Salt 594 



Volume of Trade 594 



Government 595 



Condition of People 597 



Criminality 598 



Religious Conditions 598 



Education 599 



