PREFACE. 



The aim of tliis volume is to give an liistorical 

 account of the oi'igin and progress of the settlement 

 made by emigrants from England in Bermuda, or 

 Soraers' Islands, and of the constitutional establish- 

 ment, internal government, and political system 

 maintained by Groat Britain in these Islands. I 

 have also endeavoured to describe the maimers and 

 dispositions of the present inhabitants, as influenced 

 by climate, situation, and otiier local causes; and 

 have offered some observations on the character and 

 genius of the coloured race in this colony. 



In these pages will be found a more comprehensive 

 account than has hitherto appeared of the agricul- 

 ture of these Islands in general, and of their staple 

 commodities, and the various branches of the com- 



