AGRICULTURE IN 1820, at 
beyond the gratification of its natural appetites, the 
means of gratifying those appetites, with health, plenty 
andcomfort. And he has thus relieved the planter from a 
source of increasing anxiety, by providing in one article 
of food the good qualities that twenty other varieties to- 
gether could not substitute. 
DRAINAGE. 
This article embraces a wide field. Hardly an acre 
of cultivated land lies above the level of high water mark ; 
the whole of the vast plain of cultivation being formed 
by the deposition of the mud that discolours the sea for 
some leagues from the shore at the time of high tide, and 
would be again covered, but for the construétion of high 
dams, by which that is prevented. No country in this 
respe&t approaches nearer in resemblance to that of 
Holland, and none but Dutchmen would have thought 
of reducing such a mass of water into cultivated Terra 
Firma. To the glory and praise of the industry of that 
nation this has however been accomplished, and the rules 
and regulations adopted by the Government of the early 
settlers merit for their wisdom and public spirit the 
highest eulogium, 
To the negle& of these precautions are owing many 
inconveniences under which the colony now suffers. But 
private interest has preserved in most instances what the 
Government has in many forgotten. Every improve- 
ment of consequence has been effeéted by Dutch or 
French Governors. ‘The British have been better con- 
tented with pocketing their salaries in peace and quiet- 
ness, and letting the colony stand by its own strength, 
which fortunately it has been able to do without their 
fostering assistance. It has been an excuse with them, 
