258 BERMUDA. 



flicted on her loyal and mucli attached trans-Atlantic 

 subjects. 



Although sugar is not the staple product of 

 Bermuda, yet free trade, as before noticed, exerts 

 a very baneful influence on the colony. Notwith- 

 standing this, however, there is every reason to 

 believe that with greater advancement in agricul- 

 tural industry, and a more rapid communication 

 established with the United States by means of 

 steam-vessels, the islands may, ere long, be rendered 

 very prosperous. 



