A rapid attempt to lay out imports in an incipient state of things might discourage settlers, and do serious injury. The progress made during the last winter is quite striking - numbers of really fine houses have risen in all directions, and as roads and communications are completed, and the drainage carried out, the capabilities of the place, with all its natural difficulties, will altogether surpass the first expectation.
With reference to the question of the prospects of commerce, it is clear that a place which has no productions can exchange nothing in trade; but the finest harbour in the world (as many naval officers pronounce it) and a free port, must render it in time an entrepôt. It is especially available for warehousing native goods. Even produce, the numerous valleys on the south side (by far the finest part of the Island) to which a road has been nearly completed,