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CONTENTS. 



Pages. 



Chapter V. 



Political Representation in Jamaica — Impotence of the 

 Legislature — Executive influence — The Council — 

 Deliberations of the Assembly — Political Parties — 

 Public Salaries — Memorial against the Council, - 38-52 



Chapter VI. 



The Poverty of Jamaica — Depreciation and diminution of 

 exports — The market value of estates — Correspond- 

 ing prostration in the other British "West India 

 Colonies, - 52-64 



Chapter VII. 



Physical resources of Jamaica — Soil — Fruits — Vegeta- 

 bles — Drugs — Trees — Irrigation — Rivers — Difficul- 

 ties of transportation — Harbors — Mincs 3 - - - 64-78 



Chapter VIII. 



The decline of Jamaica explained — The complaints of 

 the Planters — The remedies proposed by the Plant- 

 ers — The real difficulties in Jamaica stated — First, 

 the degradation of labor, - - - - 10-78 



Chapter IX. 



Absenteeism and Middlemen — Stanley's letter to Glad- 

 stone, - 78-88 



Chapter X. 



Encumbered Estates — Insolvency of the Island — The 

 Planters and the Home Merchant — Restrictions on 

 Commerce, - 88-102 



