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products, on account of the indifferent manner in which 
they were put up. 
A list of what might, and what ought to be ex- 
hibited would be too long for these pages, since 
there is scarcely any educated and intelligent person 
who could not contribute something of interest or 
value. Planters will of course exhibit samples of 
the produce which has made the colony what it is, 
and these results of their energy and enterprize 
will, we may be sure, form a grand feature. There are 
many besides whose skill may be exercised in gathering 
together others of the gifts with which nature has so 
bountifully endowed our land, and the products derived 
therefrom. It is only necessary to mention some, such 
as oils, dyes, fibres, drugs, articles of food, &c, which 
might, without much trouble or expense, be obtained ; 
the reader will readily supply others. 
Some of the most interesting and attractive objects 
at the Fisheries Exhibition, last year, were the models. 
Every thing connected with fish-breeding, fish-catching, 
fish-curing and packing, which was too large to be shewn 
in its natural size was represented in miniature ; and so 
might we exhibit models of plantations, showing their 
arrangements of cultivation and buildings and their system 
of drainage and canals : models of our dwellings, or even 
one of our Georgetown streets reproduced in petto : of 
the boats and other craft that are peculiar to our rivers 
and coast, and of severe 1 other objects. It is prover- 
bial how little people at home know of our colony and 
of the daily life and occupations of its inhabitants ; 
models such as these would teach more readily and 
more accurately than any number of written pages, and 
