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 of the country, than a colony to which she might look for an extension of her power or an increase of her trade and resources.

Of late, however, the spirit of emigration has led thither many individuals and families, of a different description from that of which the bulk of the colony formerly consisted. Men of enterprise and industry have been induced to settle in the colony, by the expectation that the abundance of good land which would be granted to them without price, and almost without burdens, would repay the capital and industry engaged on it, better than the highly rented and taxed lands of their native country; or, than any other mode of investing their capital, and employing their industry, was capable of doing, where it had so much competition to contend with.

The number of the respectable portion of the community has also been increased, by the families and descendants of the original and successive officers of the military and civil establishments, who, pleased with the fineness of the climate, and, perhaps, influenced by motives similar to those of the emigrants, have relinquished the desire of returning home, for the prospects offered by a settlement in the colony; and lastly, by many of the reformed convicts, and their children, whose conduct entitles them to be considered respectable members of society.