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some of the Islands to windward ; but I suspect there is; 

 in all of them very great room for improvement ', by means of 

 judicious tillage and artifia 'al assistance" 



Note. " It should have been observed, that it is sometimes a 

 custom, after a field of canes has been cut, to set fire to the 

 trash. This is called burning off, and there are managers 

 and overseers who consider it as one of the best methods 

 of meliorating the land. I confess that I am of a different 

 opinion. Perhaps, indeed, in a moist, stiff, and clayey land, 

 it may do no harm ; and this negative phrase is the only merit 

 I can allow it. From the usual and prevalent nature of 

 the soil best adapted for sugar, I am persuaded that nine 

 times in ten it is a mischievous prattice? 



FINIS. 



