SETTLEMENTS ON THE DEMERARY, &C. 209 



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INCREASE OP SUGAR ESTATES, AS WELL ON THE COAST AS 



IN THE RIVERS EXPENSIVE UNDERTAKINGS SEASONED 



NEGROES: — SAILORS AND TRADESMEN IMPORTED FROM 

 THE ISLANDS ON ADVANTAGEOUS TERMS TO THEM- 

 SELVES -CIRCUMSTANCE WHICH OCCURRED AT THE 



SALE OF AN AFRICAN CARGO PROOF OF GRATITUDE IN 



NEGROES A MELANCHOLY STORY TASK GANGS WOOD 



CUTTERS VISIT TO AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER AC- 

 COUNT OF HIS ESTABLISHMENT, w::.:l;> "ji^; L t 



OST of the emigrants from the West India islands have 

 hitherto engaged themselves principally in sugar planting, by 

 Nvhicli means the number of estates for that article are increased 

 five to one. The genius of the Dutch could never thoroughly 

 dive into the proper method of manufacture, and, for want of 

 capital to carry their measures into effect, they almost all 

 failed, and never arrived to any perfection. 



Such was the rage for making sugar estates, which our 

 islanders had introduced into the colony, that several were 



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