264 TiMEHRl. 



There has also been an improvement in the quantity 

 of plantains and roots sent forward from the Banks 

 of the Demerara River within reach of the City 

 market. 



The Chinese of Camoonie Creek continue to send large 

 quantities of eddoes, sometimes 300 bags, and 40 to 50 

 barrels of yams in a week. The South East bank of 

 the Essequebo appears to be owned or tenanted by an 

 energetic class of Creoles and East Indians, who nearly 

 monopolize the market on Monday in each week, with 

 large quantities of bitter cassava and Chinese eddoes. 

 A new source of supply has been tapped during the past 

 few months ; plantains, corn and roots, are bought in 

 New Amsterdam market and transported by schooners 

 and steamer to be sold in Stabroek Market, thereby 

 making Georgetown the centre market for the Colony. 

 The farmers on the banks of the Pomeroon river, and in 

 the North West Distri6l employ about twenty small 

 schooners transporting plantains, corn, roots and other 

 provisions to the Georgetown markets, and shopand house 

 supplies on the return voyage, and the steamer brings in- 

 creasing quantities from the Barima river and tributary 

 creeks. 



Having mentioned the chief sources of the vegetables 

 supplied to our City market, I may now recur to the neces- 

 sity of an increase of one-half to three-fourths in the quan- 

 tity of provisions furnished, to meet the want of the over 

 50,000 inhabitants of Georgetown, who have only 15 

 ounces of plantain, flesh matter, and 44 ounces of roots per 

 day, for every family of five individuals, if no additional 

 supplies are taken into account. Since the above calcu- 

 lations were made, I have obtained a note of the 



