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occupancy and cultivation of our present staples; that the settlement of ag 
riculturists at Sinabal island was hence broken up, and that the same fail- 
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esert, unless the enterprise of the subscriber shall furnish both a 
mode of successful vegeculture, and a nursery of profitable plants, adapted 
to its peculiar climate and soil. : , 
subscriber respectfully adverts to other obstacles in the way of an im- 
mediate commencement of tropical vegeculture in tropical Florida ; the 
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ese the probability that it will not be offered for sale in many years; 
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policy to bestow on actual settlers select portions of our most fertile soils 
and valuable situations; the much greater inducements to emigrants offered 
by Texas and Cuba in the quantity, quality, and the bounty of their soils ; 
the virtually insulated position of tropical Florida, the absence of reads and 
post offices, and the great distance, difficulty, and expense of communica- 
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of all tropical products in the United States, and, consequently, the entire 
absence of even the incidental protection derived from mere revenue duties 
to Government, 
The subscriber has not yet enumerated all the obstacles, but, writing 
with a manifold writer and a in a hurry, he offers this apology for the de- 
fects of the present undigested communication ; and concludes by respect- 
