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sive manor of about 2200 acres of land. 
As the feudal mght is vested in his own 
person, he flatters himself, that the pub- 
lic will so far do justice toa British indi=- 
vidual, as to allow that he must have an 
equal abhorrence to feudal tyranny, and 
that his own interest must be too crident 
to him not to convince him, that that of 
those who cultivate his fielgs are insepa- 
rable from hisown. If this is once grant- 
ed, all fears with respect to the evils of 
the government will disperse at once. 
Vast capitals in England have been 
employed in landed property in America 
and the West Indies; colonies to the for 
mer are so many individuals lost to their 
mother country; while the system of sla- 
very established in the latter, has already 
evinced their real and increasing incon- 
veniences. Let us call the attention of 
the public to the proposition here submit- 
ted to their consideration. 
The estate of the writer, as has 
been before observed, consists of about 
£200 English acres, in a situation highly 
adapted to the vine, as the wild vine 
grows spontaneously there. It lies about 
ten miles from the harbour of Syracuse. 
The wild olive grows in abundance, and 
by engrafting, the produce of oil in a few 
vears will be immense. Every part of it 
a wholesome dry air. At present it pro- 
duces the best wheat and good pasture 
for cattle, in the wet season. The soil is 
a black reddish loam, on a bed of lime- 
stone rock; and every material for buil- 
ding is abundant in the neighbourhood. 
There is no spring on its whole extent, 
but there are anumber of cisterns hewn 
out of the solid rock, and the ruins of an 
aqueduct, which formerly brought a 
large supply of water to the town, whose 
remains siijl attest its former existence, 
bear witness to the skill of the yreat Ar- 
chimedes. 
As this estate is too extensive for one 
individual to do it justice, as well as the 
necessity of intelligent assistance, he has 
thought it most advisable to mvite his 
eountrymen to try if any advantages are 
to be gained by its cultivation, and. this 
is the offer he proposes to make to them. 
In order to make this subject more 
clear to those who would pay some atten- 
tion to it, he begs to lay betore them the 
present. value of the lands. The whole 
estate taken together is worth, with the 
fruit of the olive trees, about the annual 
rent of five shillings per acre, and this at 
twenty years purchase, amounts to the 
price of £10,000.. An acre of land, 
planted with vines, will contain about 
Propositions for the Introduction of Sicilian Wines. (Feb. 1, 
sixteen thousand vine-plants, and as at a 
moderate computation, one thousand 
plants will yield about four-sixths of a 
Pipe of wine, so an acre of land, or six- 
teen thousand vines, will prodace about 
something more than ten pipes of wine, 
aud valuing ve same at three pounds per 
pipe, the produce of an acre of land is 
thirty pounds; from this should be de- 
ducted four years from the planting the 
vines to their beginning to ee fruit, 
planting, pruning, and hoing; all which 
cannot be very expensive in a country 
where the wages of labour are under 
nine-pence sterling per day; added to 
this, ‘that the produce of the olive bea! 
which have been found, when properly 
managed, to produce oil equal to that of 
Lueca, and of which samples may be 
procured, would evidently cover all the ex- 
pences and outgoings on the wine pro- 
duce; but let us even deduct one-third of 
the return of the vine crop, and it will 
leave twenty pounds per acre.—Note, 
that we have estimated the produce at 
four-sixths of a pipe per thousand plants, 
which is the lowest possible computanon 
above a total failure of the crop. Tins 
moderate calculation cannot startle the 
most scrupulous, and the wine estimated 
at three pounds sterling the pipe, when 
landed in London, may “be considered as 
cheaply sold at badive pounds; so that 
the possessor of an hundred acres of land 
may, in afew years, think himself dis- 
appointed, when, after he has brought it 
mto form, it should yield him one thou 
sand pounds a year. : 
It is enough at present te have suggest- 
ed these ideas; if they are considered as 
worthy of farther inquiry, any satisfact- 
ion may be obtained on the subject from 
the proprietor himself, by applying to 
Messrs. Devaynes, Dawes, and Co. 
Pall-Mall; Messrs. Hobbes, Chambers, 
and Co. Bond-Street; or Messrs. Jarman, 
Pope and Stephens, College-Hull. 
N.8. The Proprietor maintains that the 
Red Sicilian Wine may be rendered in every 
respect equal to Port Wine; it is therefore 
proposed in the first instance to send over a 
skilful person to investigate this point, and 
should the result prove favourabie, to form a 
company to carry the plan into effect. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
SHALL, accor dig to the usual cus= 
tom, lay betore you a short summary 
of my me eteorological observations, made 
between the 25th of December 1806, 
andthe same day 1807 ; and, to preserve 
uniformity 
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