490 TRINIDAD. 



fine island will then vanish like noxious exhalations before the 



rising sun. 



I have the honour to be, my lord, 



Your Excellency's most obedient humble servant, 

 L. A. A. DB VERTEUIL, M.D.P. 



PORT-OF-SPAIN. 



Such was the scheme I submitted for Lord Harris' considera- 

 tion some time in the year 1850. My opinions have not since 

 changed, and I am still strongly convinced that the establishment 

 of a model farm, with a school [of agriculture attached,^would 

 confer incalculable benefits on the community. Moreover, as 

 juvenile depravity is on the increase, and the number of youthful 

 criminals augmenting to an alarming extent, such an establishment 

 might be rendered subservient as a penitentiary for that class of 

 offenders, where they could receive primary instruction, religious 

 teaching, and industrial training. 



To the plan, in the abstract, no one, I believe, can offer any 

 serious objection ; by many, I know, its realisation will be deemed 

 impossible : to the latter, I answer it has been realised elsewhere 

 to the fullest extent, and with manifold advantages. 



