Excerpt from The African Repository, 1855, Vol. 31 None need fear to say we have an excellent country here. Time, in dustry and health, are only necessary to develope its rich resources. Our farmers are lengthening and widen ing yearly their Operations the soil has never failed to yield to the hand of industry its supplies. The coffee plant which begins to repay its grower from the grain at most in the fourth year, is being more than ever cultivated, and many begfin now to look over their fields, in high eu ticipation that they will more than meet all their necessary demands. Sugar Cane, though not indigenous, yet if it was, it could not be better ground nor more profitably culti vated. I am confident if there was a steam engine of six-horse power for the purpose of propelling a sugar mill, considering the extent to which sugar cane is now cultivated, and the inducement held out by such a facility for manufacturing the juice into syrup and sugar, in a very short time the article might be shipped, and at least meet home consump tion. On the elevated banks of the St. Paul's river it might be erected. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.