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healthy leaves, 8 to 9 feet long, which is, I believe, far beyond the 
average. 
7. The labour for Mr. Hance’s lands is, like that for Breezy Point, 
drawn from Grand Caicos, including the villages of Lorimers, Bo 
and Fergusons, but his plantation is so small that this will cause 
9. At Kew there are no Pita plantations, nor is it desirable that there 
should be, as the land is richer than in any other part of the Caicos, 
and is required for, and should be, the market garden of ot 
Settlements. This year has been one of such intense drought that the 
in Agriculture, sent up by Mr. Morris at Mr. Llewelyn’s request. They 
11. Our schooner having returned from Grand Turk, Mr. Leslie and 
I left on Thursday morning for West Caicos, the waste lands on which 
have been recently lease in accordance with the permission contained in 
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on the Commissioner, as it is since the abolition of the office of Crown 
Surveyor (Colonial Engineer), just before my arrival in 1885. ides, 
the work of surveyi 
promised to do it, and propose to return there early next month. — — 
12. That this island of West Caicos is suitable for the fibre cultiva 
tion is proved by the fact that in cutting the bush from the l 
portion of land which the company has been able to clear, since they 
were allowed to go to work a fortnight ago, several Pita plants in good 
ing over such very rough country, through thick | 
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