BRITISH SETTLEMENT


raged by the acknowledged superiority of
the climate and soil of this part of the
continent, and from the circumstance of
its being happily removed from the dis-
couraging inconvenience of the frequent
and continued droughts so fatal to every
agricultural attempt in many other parts
of it, and from which the greater num-
ber of the West India islands arc seldom
exempt.
 It will, therefore, only remain for hu-
 man industry, if no intervention shall
 offer to the exercise of it, to improve
 the benefits thus conferred by the indul-
 gence of nature; for beside her almost
 spontaneous gifts, little has hitherto
 been sought in this quarter of the
 world.-
 Leaving this branch of the natural
 history of the country, we now proceed
 to another, which it is presumed may be
 less known, though certainly, from the
 many valuable advantages annexed to