6 Bogota'. 



be practicable to use them for the land in 

 general ; and I am happy to find that many 

 of these most useful implements are on their 

 way to this country, where only industry, 

 enterprize, and capital, are wanting to reap 

 a golden harvest. I should advise, that 

 men experienced in agriculture, and skilled 

 in the best methods of managing land, should 

 go out, amply provided with the best im- 

 plements of husbandry ; and with machinery 

 for winnowing and grinding the corn in a 

 superior manner to that now practised in the 

 country, where the grain is badly sifted and 

 worse ground. A quantity of the best sorts 

 of European grain, seeds, plants, herbs, &c. 

 should be sent out to flourish in a soil that 

 would rapidly bring them to perfection, and 

 amply repay the speculator. 



Architecture has made some progress, but 

 painting and sculpture have but little ad- 

 vanced. The best specimen of the former in 



