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 the choice of lands, proper for the immediate cultivation of the ugar-cane, had choen uch places in the interior parts of the country, as were on the tops of high mountains, or urrounded by vat woods; which affording too much helter from the un, and being ubject to too frequent great rains, chilled the canes, rendering their juice unfit for making ugar. Not but that, was the whole of the cultivable lands there to be cleared of their woods, there are few ituations, even in the mot interior parts, but would be proper for the growth of that article.

By this imprudent conduct of uch of the new ettlers, after they had pent coniderable ums of money, which they had borrowed on the credit of their plantations o ituated, and having loft a number of negroes and cattle by the dampnes of the climate in thoe places, together with the difficult and laborious roads to them, they were at length driven to the ceity