VI PREFACE. 



them ; between which and Great Britain there 

 are very important commercial relations, and in 

 which there is a very large British cajDital 

 invested. 



His object in writing this work has been truth- 

 Mly and intelligibly to describe the country, its 

 resources, and climate, with a view to its indus- 

 tries — pointing out various channels for the advan- 

 tageous employment of capital, fields for labour, 

 and its remuneration, and to usher in the dawn of 

 a more advanced and more sound system of 

 working those industries, by explaining the prin- 

 ciples which should regulate the practice of par- 

 ties engaged, or about to engage, in them ; and 

 he claims from the ' lettered' public that considera- 

 tion which they may fairly accord to a writer, 

 whose daily avocations are the practice of the 

 industries of which he treats. 



BuEXOs Aykes, 18(50. 



