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will allow them to subscribe such a sum as their means will admit, which 
they trust will be sufficient to make such additions to the Church as 
are required and the Vestry shall in their wisdom see fit, and your 
petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray." 
Then follow the signatures — which, by the way, are generally Chris- 
tian names only. Passing strange it is to find that, with one exception, 
the members of the Vestry would not allow the apprentices to pay 
anything — owing probably to some prejudice — and we gather that there 
were some lively meetings on the subjeft. Things were carried to such 
a point that the Governor had to interfere — who took the Rector's and 
apprentices' side. 
Artificial Mound behind Pin. Leonora. — The Hon. 
William Russell informs me that he has lately found 
in the bush behind Pin. Leonora, r an artificial raised 
way which has no connection with any thing else'. He 
adds that he has been informed by an old negro 
that the people used to raise such mounds, and 
to grow yams and cassava upon them in the wet 
season, when the country was under water. Mr. 
Russell suggests that the mounds behind Enmore, 
on the East Coast, of which I gave an account 
in the previous number of Timehri, may be of similar 
origin. While fully alive to the interest of the Leonora 
mound, supposing it to be that which Mr. RUSSELL as- 
sumes, I cannot agree that the Enmore mounds, which 
contain much pottery of distinctly Carib origin, can be, 
whatever the Leonora mound may be, of African origin. 
Local India-rubbers. — It may be remembered that 
some time ago Mr. Jenman procured an analysis, and 
estimate of the value of, a new India-rubber from the 
Pomeroon River, described under the two names of 
Touckpong and Coomaka-balli. It has now been ascer- 
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