333 ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [October,. 



and allowing no more than thirty bufhels of maize to the acre, would 

 be two hundred and twenty- five thoufand eight hundred and forty 

 bufhels of grain ; and even this might be doubled, if, as before faid, 

 there were labourers to procure a fecond crop. 



The remaining three thoufand four hundred and feventy-two acres 

 might be referved for fuel, building timber, and other purpofes. 



From thefe data fome calculation may be mode of the number of 

 people that the ifland might be made to maintain. 



The following is a ftatement of the flock belonging to govern- 

 ment and individuals on the 18th of O&ober 1796. 



Cattle, 3 ; female ditto, 3 ; horfes, 2 j mares, 4; affes, 6 ; fheep, 170 5 

 goats, 383 ; fwine, 4835 \ poultry a very great abundance. 



Exclufive of the above Itock, five hundred and ninety-two thoufand 

 four hundred and eighty pounds of fwine flefti and mutton had been 

 expended on the ifland and exported from it \ all which were pro- 

 duced from the following quantity received from November 1 79 1 to* 

 October 1796. Cattle, one male and two females ; horfes, one male 

 one female ; afles, one male and three females \ fheep, twenty-three ; 

 goats, thirteen ; fwine, one hundred and fifty-nine. 



When the fettlers were informed that payment for the maize lodged 

 in the ftores in January 1794, coul$ not be made until orders were 

 received from England, and that no more grain could be received, but 

 that the purchafe of frefh pork would be continued, the courfe of their 

 induftry became changed, though the raifing of grain ftill continued 

 necefTary for rearing their (lock. 



Salting pork in the cool months had been fuccefsfully tried; but it 

 would not anfwer in the fummer* It was intended, that the fwine be- 

 longing to government which could be killed during the winter fiiould 

 be faked down, as a fufficiency of fait was making to anfwer that 

 purpofe. 



From thefe refources, it might fairly be prefumed, that, if no unfore- 

 feen mortality ftiould attack the flock, the fettlers and other individuals 

 would be able to continue fupplying the ftores with half the ration of 



animal 



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