BRITISH. SETTLEMENT


 CHAP II.

COnsiderations on the Commercial Advantages of
 Honduras. Agriculatral Resurces, Soil and
 Cinate adapted to the culture of most of the
 pmodstionse of Ae West itdia bslends. Do.
 mestic Animals, A fisheries. Fruits

I. opportunities were offered for an un-
interrupted exercise of the many great
commercial advantages which the settle-
ment of Honduras possesses, it might per-
h.ps prove as valuable to the parent
country as any one of its dependencies.
In point of situation, it is so favourably
placed for such purposes in the Spanish
American dominions, that the benefits re-
sulting from the indulgence of a licensed
trade, granted so late as 1806, have been
already very sensibly felt; and there cam-
not be a doubt, but hat a more unre-
strained intercourse,, especially durVt