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that of sugar, impossible. So that the British Govern- 
ment, in their zeal to get rid of the odium of the slave 
trade, have given other nations the bribe of the exclusive 
supply of the cotton market to take the sin off their 
shoulders, which, it appears, with the bonus of two or 
three millions a year, they have no scruples of conscience 
in doing, the poor son of Africa being just as much a 
slave as ever, with the pitiful consolation that he can 
have any master but a British one. This is certainly 
parturient montes. 
There is, however, yet a means of restoring in some 
measure a part of the cotton culture, were there any faith 
in Princes, or in the pretensions of a British Ministry, or 
in their sincerity on the score of national prosperity. 
There is yet a sufficiency of virgin land on the coast 
eastwards of the Essequebo, to establish a new cotton 
Colony, adequate to the employment of 50,000 negroes 
from the Islands, in a most fruitful soil, and with every 
natural advantage for subsistence and cultivation, being 
_ the salt alluvion, so peculiarly adapted for the growth of 
cotton ; in favour of which measure another circumstance 
has recently transpired of great moment. 
Late enquiries into the properties of the indigenous 
cottons cultivated by the Indians have proved that other 
varieties exist, much superior to the ones hitherto culti- 
vated, promising a greater certainty of return in some 
kinds, anda very superior quality in others ; they are here 
enumerated :— 
1st. The Doyuma, or dwarf recumbent cotton. This 
cotton gives a regular and almost certain crop, being 
scarcely at all affe€ted by either the blast or shrivel, and 
yielding considerably more than the old cottons in the 
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