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press purpose of commencing cultivation in the interior of this 

 vast tract of valuable territory. It would evidently be the 

 means of forwarding three objects — that of encreasing the fund; 

 that of serving individuals ; and that of encouraging agriculture, 

 hy enabling planters ivith small capitals, to extend their pursuits 

 beyond the sea coast, and banks of the rivers and creeks. 



This point merits consideration; and I strongly recom- 

 mend it to the notice of the governor and council. Should 

 they not attend to it, our present judicious ministers 

 will, I hope, when the colonies are permanently attached to 

 Great Britain, take such measures as to carry so desirable a 

 plan into execution. The sum expended for support of the 

 poor is nothing. We have none ! at least that are dependent 

 on the colony. The church establishment is very trivial, there 

 is only one English and one Dutch clergyman, and to prove 

 how very tolerant the inhabitants are, they all use the same 

 church. The Dutch service is read from ten till eleven on a 

 Sunday morning, when the Dutch congregation retires, and 

 makes room for the English one. 



The high duty on glass bottles in Great Britain is taken off 

 when exported, and from the immense number of them which 

 are imported with malt liquor into these colonies, they be- 

 come valueless ; indeed they accumulate so fast that people are 

 often glad to get rid of them by throwing them into the ditches 



