284 TlMEHRI. 
to build a magistrate's house and Court-room. Land 
granted only during Her Majesty's pleasure, of course 
could be claimed by the Crown ; but 1 do not think any 
one need be uneasy on that score as long as our Attorney 
General thinks it safe to buy land held under similar grant. 
As to the future of the Berbice river, I think one day 
it will be again under cultivation. It may be a long time 
and not many of the present generation living will see it, 
but when land becomes scarcer than at present, when 
labour becomes more plentiful, then we may expect some 
to turn their footsteps in this direction ; and I know no 
field of labour better suited for our creole youths, — whose 
sole ambition now seems to be obtaining situations as dry 
goods clerks, — to turn their pluck and energy to and 
become landed proprietors cultivating coffee and cocoa. 
Appendix. 
Chemical Laboratory, Tuschen De Vrienden, 
Demerara, and Octr., 1883. 
Hon. B. Howell Jones. 
Dear Sir, — I have carefully analysed the four samples of Soil marked 
Maria Henrietta — Landstroon — Doornboom — Monte Video, from the 
Berbice River and find them to be of the following composition. I shall 
refer you to the samples hereafter as Nos. I, 2, 3, & 4, in the order 
already named : — 
No. 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. 
per cent. per cent. per cent. per cent. 
Water 1-303 ... 1-252 
Organic Matter* ... 3"474 • ■• 2-570 
Silicious Sand Qi'35 1 ■•■ 92-840 
Alumina 2-421 ... 1*964 
Ferric Oxide 860 ... '912 
Lime 091 ... 080 
Magnesia 072 ... 082 
Potash 050 ... -034 
Soda 068 ... -051 
Sulphuric Acid 085 ... - o66 
Phosphoric Acid ... 054 ... "037 
Chlorine '061 ... 044 
1478 ... 2-707 
5024 ... 8-216 
89-308 ... 86-654 
2-726 ... 1620 
•892 ... -548 
•102 ... "064 
051 ... 060 
028 ... -039 
•02 1 ... 042 
082 . . . 069 
063 ... "051 
037 ... 040 
99-890 99932 
* Cont'g Nitrogen 1 .. 046 "041 
