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First yet iimioticed. Tliy work would be a pleasing one, and 



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thou mightest make several useful observations in it. 



Would it be thought impertinent in thee to hazard a . 

 conjecture, that with the resources the government of 

 Demerara has, stones might be conveyed from the rock 

 Saba to Stabroek, to stem the equinoctial tides, which 

 are for ever sweeping away the expensive wooden piles 

 round the moimds of the fort ? Or would the timber- 

 merchant point at thee in passing by, and call thee a 

 descendant of La Mancha's knight, because thou main- 

 tainest that the stones which form the rapids might be 

 removed with little expense, and thus open the navigation 

 to the wood-cutter from Stabroek to the great fall ? Or 

 wouldst thou be deemed enthusiastic or biassed, because 

 thou givest it as thy opinion that the climate in these high 

 lands is exceedingly wholesome, and the lands themselves 

 capable of nourishing and maintaining any number of set- 

 tlers ? In thy dissertation on the Indians, thou mightest 

 hint, that possibly they could be induced to help the 

 new settlers a little ; and that finding their labours well 

 requited, it would be the means of their keeping up a 

 constant communication with us, which probably might 

 be the means of laying the first stone towards their 

 Christianity. They are a poor, harmless, inoffensive set 

 of people, and their wandering and ill-provided way of 

 living seems more to ask for pity from us, than to fill our 

 heads with thoughts that they would be hostile to us. 



