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by petty dealers who infested the .colony, added 

 to the difficulties under which an industrious 

 man laboured, shewed there wanted some mode 

 of providing the necessaries required ; these were 

 grievances of which he determined to get the 

 better, and he resolved to adopt every means in 

 his power to give them relief. To begin which 

 he found it necessary to shut many public- 

 houses, which, when permitted, were meant as a 

 -convenience to the people ; but he saw they were 

 the chief cause from which many.- confessed 

 their ruin to have sprung. 



The island which Captain Hamilton jrun his 

 ship on, to prevent her sinking with them at 

 sea, was now distinguished by the name of 

 Preservation Island. From which the Francis 

 had arrived with the remaining part pf the pro- 

 perty. When she was unloaded, the property 

 was put up and sold for the benefit of the 

 underwriters, and fetched the inost enormous 

 prices. The money that the settlers should 

 have expended in the improvement of their 

 farms was thus thrown away ; and as the wheat 

 of the last season had been received into the 

 public granary, and paid for, money not being- 

 scarce, twenty-two shillings were paid for a 

 common cup and saucer. 



The Governor wishing to obtain further 

 information respecting the salt-hill Wilson and 

 his companions saw in their late excursion, he 

 sent Hacking there. On his return he brought 

 some samples of various veins of salt in different 

 places, of 10 to 113 feet deep. 



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