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usual way, of previous clearing, and enclosure, and cultivation. 
settlement at Sinabal island was hence abandoned by the party that went 
from New York some years ago, after having wasted many thousand dollars 
and i 
ti years. — me F 
In acquiring the right and safety of location for six miles square in 
uthern Florida, the subscriber will have merely acquired the foundation 
i ise. In addition to the numerous and formidable 
policy of our own Government, of the 
and of the proprietors of the immense tracts under Spanish grants in south 
Florida, will operate as so many additional obstacles to my endeavors to 
get associates in my labors. By the terms of our pre-emption laws, every 
actual settler can obtain a quarter-section of the richest soils, in the most 
valuable sites, and have the virtual property of all the adjoining lands, with- 
out any stipulations of introducing and propagating strange, living, and per- 
ennial plants. By otir compromise tariff, my enterprise is deprived even 
of that indirect protection incident to revenue duties, as all the products 
of the tropics are now admitted free of duty into the United States. 
the terms of emigration to Texas and Cuba, our agriculturists are seduced 
in the greater quantity, the better quality, and the entire bounty of their 
ils y the terms on which the proprietors of the immense tracts under 
not, probably, cost them one-tenth of a cent per acre; and hence it will be 
eir interest to give away large portions to actual settlers on the si le 
condition of actual occupation. ‘The immense grant to the Duke of Alogon 
called Hackley’s, is said by J. Lee William, in his recent book on Florida, 
to contain eight millions of acres; and in 1832, during the pending of the 
bill in behalf of the subscriber and his associates, the said Haekley offered 
ten thousand acres of that tract to the subscriber, on the sole condition of 
jocation upon it, and with the privilege of selecting those ten thousand 
acres in the whole southeru extremity of the eight millions of acres. r 
the advice of the honorable J. M. White, the then delegate from Florida, 
the subseriber was induced to refuse the gift of said ten thousand acres, 
nd to attach more importance to the conditional grant of Congress, con- 
templated by the bill of the 22d April, 1832, which he was assured would 
