The main bent of our farmers is to raise wheat, and they are like to remain in that way until the price of it becomes so low, that necessity puts upon some other way of Cultivation which in process ;

;

of time

is

like to

happen, because the Sugar Islands cannot increase in the proportk": v.

ich the

Northern Collonys do, and whether some other encouragement may bring them over sooner I cannot affirm.

In this Collony are a great many lands extream fit for hemp, and there

has land proper to raise flax

;

is

not one farm In

it

but

but little more of either is raised than what is for private use, the

former they apprehend to require more hands than they have to spare, and labour is still so dear that they cannot afford to hire people for that purpose.

Nor do they (as I believe) well understand

how to rost [rot?] and dress it. Tarr Pitch and Turpentine

may be got here, but more plentifully in some of the other Northern made use of by the Navy or Nation of Great Britain, if

Collonys, in greater quantitys than can be

the price at home will encourage

it,

which I am informed it has not done for several years past,

notwithstanding the bounty allowed on the importation.

am told your Lordships formerly sent hither the method used in Russia for making of Tar and

that upon tryal thereof it was found not to answer here, which is attributed more to the difference