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make his fortune, he begins to study the comforts and 
conveniences that make life less precarious. The change 
is very rapidly effeéting, and a few years will generate 
in the breast of the British settlers what has before been 
thought paradoxical, something like an attachment to 
the soil. When this takes place we may look forward 
to something like society and a public opinion, but 
where there is no permanent interest there is no public 
spirit, and accordingly we see that Demerara, com- 
pared with Barbados or Jamaica, has hitherto presented 
nothing but a selfish struggle of insignificant parties, 
and a total want of unanimity or understanding amongst 
all classes of the community. So well aware are the 
colonists of this feeling that if you ask one what is the 
reason of it he will tell you, ‘‘ We are too busy cutting 
one another’s throats to think of any thing that regards 
the interests of the community.” 
Some individuals have projeéted schemes for the 
colonization of the interior, which have never ripened 
into execution. It is beyond doubt that there are numer- 
ous situations at the heads of the different creeks, where 
good soil, high ground, salubrity of atmosphere, and 
great natural advantages would render a colony of 
whites particularly flourishing if they could be kept 
together. But the temptation to go to the Estates on 
the Coast, or to the Town, would, it is feared, operate 
too disadvantageous. 
It is however a feasible measure, and if persevered in 
might be carried to such an extent as to secure to the 
British the undisturbed possession of these regions. The 
colonist for this purpose must be drawn from the class of 
poor labourers with families, and as few artizans as pos- 
