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fent, except that it is very mountainous, no public road being tra- 



verfed as yet through any part of it ; fo that it is almofi: as much 



an undifcovered country, as the regions bordering on the Soutli 



pole. But fo large a tra£l contains, probably, valuable timbers, 



rich veins of foil, and a variety of other ftores of wealth and 



euriofity. 



It may be proper, as my Iketch of the different pariHies is 



drawing near to a clofe, that I fliould here recapitulate the feveral 



parcels of fuppofed cultivated land, which have been noticed to lie 



in wildernefs, and without an inhabitant. 



Acres. Morafs. 



ii«-iii r f between St. Anne and Cla-i o c ^ • ■> 



Middlefex, J , , libo,ooo, of which 



t rendon, about J 



{St. Thomas in the Eaft, — ■> 

 Portland, (-133,000 — 8000 

 St. George, J 



,St. Elizabetii, — 

 Weftmoreland, — 



St. James, 



^Trelawny, — 



5-97,000 34,000 



exclufive of the large vacant tracts in all the other parifhes, which, 

 if the computation I made in treating upon this fubje£l be near the 

 truth, amount to 1,753,000 acres of plantable or cultivable acres 

 more. But, if the amount in all. was only one million, I may 

 furely hope to be juflified in the propofitions which I have offered, 

 tending to fhev/ the expediency of forming roads, and of intro- 

 ducing fettlers, where fo vaft a fpace remains unoccupied; as well 

 as in the happy confequences I have deduced as ncceffarily attendant 

 upon the execution of a liberal plan of improvement ; whether con- 

 fidered with refpecft to tlie firength, the trade, the opulence, and 

 falubrity, of the iilaiid, or to the extenfion of the commerce, ma- 

 nufa6tures, navigation, and profits, of Great-Britain. 



Confiftent with the preceding, order^ I fliall now give a ftate of 

 this parifli for 1768, proportioned to the other divilion of St. James,, 

 from which it was {o lately fevered. 



Cornwall, 



284,000 — ■ ' •■ 26,000 



3768,. 



This 



