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the ensuing spring, foreshadows a policy calculated to effect results of 

 great public as well as private utility. The purpose is to form extensive 

 manufacturing establishments upon this territory, and to confer on the 

 operatives the privilege of purchasing small parcels of land, at moderate 

 rates, for their own cultivation. Steam will always readily and cheaply 

 supply the motive power to any extent, for such institutions. I can only 

 thus glance at the scheme, but its importance to individuals and the im- 

 mense augmentation of the business and wealth of the Island it would 

 promote, must commend it to the earnest consideration of every intelligent 

 mind. 



I have, in the preceding pages traced, with a rapid hand, the views I 

 have embraced, after a careful examination of these plains in their various 

 aspects, and all the reflection I have been able to give to the subject. In 

 revolving the different topics I have discussed in my own mind, and com- 

 paring these views with the opinions of intelligent and practical men who 

 are familiar with the question, I can discern no cause to doubt the general 

 justness and accuracy of my conclusions. 



Possibly, my judgment may be influenced by an undue enthusiasm, but 

 my imagination, penetrating the vista of a few approaching years, per- 

 ceives culture and beauty succeeding the desolation that now mars and dis- 

 figures the scene and revolts the eye ; I see a vast champaign, unsurpassed 

 in beauty and luxuriance, spreading over an area of sixty miles in length, 

 adorned by the villa and cottage, redolent with the golden harvest, embel- 

 lished by gardens and orchards, teeming with flocks and herds, and ani- 

 mated by the clangor of machinery and the pulsations of industry. When 

 this fancy shall, as it must, have acquired the tangible form of the actuality, 

 there will be revealed in this territory to the delighted vision, a scene of 

 beauty, of rural wealth and attractiveness, that will be surpassed in no 

 section of our land. 



