110 BERMUDA. 



Such a soil and climate, with good husbandry, 

 would furnish an inexhaustible source of wealth. 

 Yet with all these natural advantages, little or 

 nothing, comparatively speaking, is done in the way 

 of cultivation. This is owing to the negligence 

 of the Colonial government in not identifying itself 

 with scientific objects, and in leaving the promotion 

 of science entirely to the efforts of individuals ; 

 which is quite preposterous. Unfortunately, jealou- 

 sies have arisen between the commercial and agricul- 

 tural interests, and local prejudices find their way 

 into the halls of legislation. To these evils have 

 been added endless party bickerings, and a thirst 

 for places of ease, emolument, and power. The 

 advocates for general and practical enterprise have 

 been swept away in the overwhelming current of 

 agitation, and the energies of the most useful men have 

 been paralyzed before the altar of popular bigotry. 



The soil of the Bermudas is, in general, rich 

 and productive, yielding the labourer three crops a 

 year; the arable ground is of such an excellent 

 mould, that it contains neither flint, pebbles, nor 

 stones, sufficiently hard to grind knives. 



There are five kinds of soil in the colony, viz. : — 



Ist. The light red soil. 



2nd. The red, or clayey soil. 



