CORN. — Harvest — Fvod, 1G> 



The employment of convicts iu Province Welles* 

 lev lias been u great boon to the people, and has 

 contributed most materially to the advance "f cultiva- 

 tion unci to tlie increase of prices and rents, in the did- 

 Iritis where 1 hc\ have been stationed. But 100 mpo, 



all that caii lie yet spared from the Inland, — with 



all the drawbacks uho.e stated, eff*«: but little in a 

 year in an area of upwards »'f 12 J square miles; ;* 

 whole dry season being sometimes spent in driving a 

 causeway over a mile or two of deep moras*, and a 

 couple of months in erecting a single bridge over a 

 deep muddy ravine accessible to the tide. The po- 

 pulation have frequently, in their Idlest months, turned 

 out uith spirit to assist in felling the jungle in the 

 lute of a new road and iu tilling up deep hollo-as, and 

 are quite alive to the advantages of {.ood roads* 



In treating of wages it may he pi*oper not toonait 

 the consideration of the comparative value of tlie Pre- 

 cious Metals. 



PRECIOUS ftfg&Mft 



These are here exchangeable f »r a much larger 

 portal of labor thau in Europe, because they wilj 

 purchase live or six times Hie quantity of th& ordina* 

 rv f jljcI of tlte people, in the tirst iuatauce, than they 

 will do in Ike (alter. 



The difference in the value of gold betwixt the 

 Siraifs and England nny be, on an average, 7 per 

 cent, in favor of the former, rating the buneal of gold 

 here at 2f> dollars value. I3..t it occasionally rises to 

 82, which would balance Straits arid Home prices, or 

 nearly so. There are oq mlrtr mines known on ei* 

 tber shores of the Strata, irtnch may «erve to keep 

 that metal at a higher value, comparatively, than gold. 

 The market *alne of pure silver may be stated at 

 abaut 12f dollars per lb. Gold in found pretty atoan- 

 dauily throughout the grealcst part of lihe volcunk 



