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of the seas, musquitoes, fevers, steam-engines, rum- 
stills, mortgages, luxuries, protested bills, retained doc- 
tors and lawyers, and colonial coffin makers. The Bur- 
gomaster. of Cartabo has sunk under this accumulation 
of care and misery, and JOHN BULL with his capital, 
and SAUNDERS with his perseverance and frugalty, more 
accustomed tothe buffs and rebuffs of commercial specula- 
tion, have stepped into his shoes and into a life of 
incessant labour and aétivity, in dread of every wind 
that blows and every tide that rises, but in the constant 
hope of at last, by hook or by crook, making a fortune 
and going home. 
The first consequence of this change has been the 
introduétion of a regular system of Agriculture—for up 
in the hills, nature did every thing, draining was sponta- 
neous, it was only necessary to clear and to plant A to 
renew below it was in the first instance necessary to 
make the soil, which was afterwards to be planted. 
The Dutchman who had first settled the hills was still 
more at home even in the swamps, and he consoled him- 
self for the loss of the comforts of the interior by making 
the Coast a second Holland. From her therefore he took 
his cue. And dams, canals, sluices and empolders (were 
reclaimed) from the sea, a portion of alluvion, unequalled 
in fertility and richer in its produ& than the finest gold 
ore from the mine. 
Few monuments of human industry are more astonish- 
ing than Demerary as it now stands, whereby system and 
perseverance, in spite of miasma, the plague of pestilence, 
the sun and the wave, a population of 100,000 people 
reside beneath the sea and the level of that sea cover 
with fleets. of Merchantmen laden with their produce in 
