COMMERCE BIGHT AND ALL PINES. '. 27 



From the mouth of the Mullin's Eiver to the southward, after 

 passing Colston Point, another small settlement has been estab- 

 lished at North Stann Creek, where bananas and coco-nuts are 

 being successfully cultivated. t 



At Commerce Bight, a very promising coco-nut plantation, 

 with some 10,000 trees,-between four and six years old, has been 

 established by Mr. C. T. Hunter,, which is probably the largest 

 in the colony. In a later chapter I shall deal fully with the 

 nature and characteristics of the different cultivations which 

 came under notice 1 ;' but I cannot help remarking here, that the 

 whole of the sea-board of British Honduras is eminently fitted 

 for the cultivation of coco-nuts, for which there is always a 

 ready and remunerative market. As the force of the surf is 

 expended on the outer reefs, little sand is accumulated on the 

 coast itself, which, being for the most part low and rich in 

 vegetable humus, affords excellent opportunities for the success- 

 ful cultivation of coco-nuts. 



After passing the mouth of the Sittee Eiver, the next point 

 of interest is All Pines village, in- the neighbourhood of which 

 there are two large sugar estates, viz., Eegalia and Serpon. 



Close to All Pines are the remains of a factory started with 

 the intention . of extracting oil from the seeds of the cohune 

 palm (Attalea cohune) ; and not far off are the works of a saw- 

 mill, established some years ago with the view of sawing timber 

 from the pitch pine, so abundant in this district. Both were 

 unsuccessful, possibly from want of judgment and capital as 

 much as from the unsuitability of the country at the time for 

 any undertaking requiring skilled manipulation and manage- 

 ment. 



Eegalia sugar estate is under the management of Mr. 

 Eeginald Eoss, an experienced Demerara planter. It is in 

 excellent order, and furnished with. a very complete set of works 



