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amount I wanted ; and taking an old Dutch writing desk, of 

 the fifteenth century, from under the table, asked me for his 

 acceptatie, (note of hand) which I accordingly gave him, 

 when he presented me with a set of drafts on a respectable 

 house in London, for one thousand pounds. I then took 

 some more of his lemonade and called for my horse, which 

 he insisted on leading over the ditch at the road side, where 

 we parted, mutually satisfied, at least I was so, with my visit. 



This curious mixture of European industry, arithmetic, and 

 frugality, with a Carribbee indift'erence to luxury, grace, and 

 accommodation, is perhaps the form toward which the back- 

 settlers of these districts insensibly tend. By degrees the 

 whole class of planters, who can live like Westfalian boors in 

 the same apartment with their pigs and horses, will find that 

 by ceding the fee simple of an estate just brought into cultiva- 

 tion, and by constantly breaking up fresh lands, they can in- 

 crease their property more rapidly than by a stationary in- 

 dustry. Whenever we have a regular set of wood-clearers, or 

 primary settlers, the progress of colonization in Guyana, will 

 be as rapid as in the most fertile parts of North America. 

 European emigrants will land at the sea ports and accommo- 

 date themselves with the completer properties in the neigh- 

 bourhood of the great town, and within reach of the luxuries 

 they want : but their descendants will learn the simpler man- 



