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most favourable seasons. This cotton is rather short in 
the staple, and not easily ginned. It is, however, very. 
durable and fully-equal in value'to the Orleans cotton.of 
America. It is without doubt the best adapted for gen- : 
eral cultivation. 
2nd, The Iffetackaasery, or large-brown close seed :: 
cotton. This is scarcely inferior to Sea Island, and | 
though equally uncertain in the crop, is at least 50 per 
cent above the common sort in market value. 
3rd. The Comacka, or water cotton. Very yellow;:: 
coarse, and so durable, that it is nearly equal to hemp 
for nets and fishing lines. 
There are nine other kinds of native cottons hitherto’ : 
unknown or uncultivated, presenting various desirable - 
properties, giving a choice of sele€&tion and an advantage’ 
to the future cultivation of this article which it has never’ 
yet possessed, the culture being hitherto confined ‘to 
the close and loose black seed cotton, which is not indi- 
genous, and is consequently more precarious in its returns | \ 
than we may reasonably expeét the native cottons to be.» 
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Should the British Government, therefore, ever becomes: 
convinced of the policy of again becoming the grower«: 
of this article so necessary to its manufaéturing pros-: 
perity, there is a million of acres of cotton land in 
Pomeroon and 12 new and superior varieties to cultivate, 
with 50,000 unprofitable negroes in the islands, who could: 
not be better employed than in making the attempt. . 
PLANTAINS. 
The Musa Paradisaica, is the staff of life-of these: 
colonies, one of the peculiar produétiong of the allu~: 
vion which gives a wholesome and favourite farina-. 
ceous food to its compaét population, at so small an > 
