36 TiMEHRI. 



mend to the Governor's serious consideration the possi- 

 bility of deriving from the colony supplies of provisionsand 

 lumber, which would not only greatly enhance the value 

 of the colony, but would lay the foundation of a solid 

 prosperity to the Empire, by rendering the other pos- 

 sessions less dependent on the United States, 



Charles Edmonstone returned to Scotland between 

 1816 and 1820 and the wood-cutting establishment was 

 carried on for some years afterwards by ROBERT EDMON- 

 STONE and Company, but it does not appear that War- 

 row's Place ever afterwards became anything but the 

 abandoned wilderness which Waterton so well des- 

 cribes. Robert Waterton, the last representative 

 of the traveller's family in Demerara, died in 1837, ^^^ 

 some years afterwards the estates passed entirely out of 

 the family. 



t^OTK^ 



[the autograph of CHARLES WATERTON.] 



