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HISTORY OF THE [book v. 
currency, or ten pounds sterling, per acre. Six 
hundred acres at this price is <£.8,400 currency. 
The cost of clearing one-half, and planting it in 
canes, including four cleanings, would be <£.12 
currency per acre, or £. 3,600. Clearing and 
planting 100 acres in provisions, would be £.1 an 
acre, or £.100-, the same for clearing and plant¬ 
ing 100 acres in Guinea grass. Inclosing and fen¬ 
cing the whole would cost, on a moderate esti¬ 
mate, £.100 more.—Total <£.14,100 currency, 
being equal to £. 10,071 sterling. 
