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whereupon the Honorable Colonel McTuRK moved, 

 seconded by the Honourable The Attorney General, that 

 the previous amendment be agreed to, omitting the word 

 diminished. The Honourables DOUGAN and ROBINSON, 

 and His Honour The Chief Justice, supported the amend- 

 ment, the other Honourable Members declined to vote. 



His Excellency was of opinion that a certain spot on 

 the Corentyne Coast beyond Plantation Skeldon, where a 

 Moravian Missionary had been some years ago establish- 

 ed, would be the most desirable quarter in which to make 

 the first attempt at the formation of a new Mission 

 should such a measure hereafter be agreed to. 



The Honourable Mr. MACRAE concurred in the opin- 

 ion just expressed by His Excellency, that the Corentyne 

 Coast would at present be the most eligible situation for 

 such an experiment. The Honourable Member then 

 referred to Mr. SchombuRGk's recommendation that the 

 boundaries of the Colony should be properly defined. In 

 the Honourable Member's opinion this was highly desir- 

 able. The Honourable Captain Warren would not be 

 averse to any measure this Colony could afford that 

 would in its ultimate results prove beneficial to the 

 Indians. It was a more difficult matter than Honourable 

 Members might suppose, to give the Indian a sufficient 

 taste for the habits of civilized life to prevent his return- 

 ing after a certain time to his natural element; the 

 experiment had been tried, and, except in very rare 

 instances, had always failed. If religious instru6lion was 

 to accomplish the end aimed at, the first objeft should 

 be to encourage them to approach nearer to the Planta- 

 tions, and to locate themselves within convenient dis- 

 tances of the different places of worship with which this 



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