Gollars to complete the work; Three Thousand dollars on my account and Three thousand Dollars on his own, without which the Edifice would have remained unroofed, a monument of my madness; other two contractors had fled; one of them was in consequence of a spring issuing from the mountain and undermining a portion of the back wall of the Building, which, on another occasion, in a wet season, fell in, and since rebuilding, the spring continues and is conducted through the Parlour by a surface drain. The honors connected with these Lots are indescribable; believe me, when the edifice was completed, it was considered unsafe, and a Verandah ordered, to be built to each wing; this cost another three hundred Pounds; in less than one year after a new tiled one was put in its place; Mr. Pil, to alleviate his Friend's woes, took a two Years Lease of Lot 19 at St. at Six Hundred Dollars per annum, has regularly paid his twelve per cent. Interests on the Loan and see accompanying Certificate.
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finally returned it; not one third of the two years rental paid by him has issued from it, and it has been fitted twice since for incoming Tenants, this moment it is entirely empty. Six houses, day by day gutted by vagrants, not a lock, bolt, or fastening remaining, a perfect ruin, hopeless, helpless, I know not what to ask in relief; I cannot ask from the Public Coffers to fill my own, but claim commiseration and consent to repay my toil, &c.
Farm N1, as its number indicates, was, I believe, the first Farm sold in the Colony; Europeans I think need not grumble at £1 per acre for tolerably level ground if within two or three Miles of the Town; for with their superior agricultural Knowledge and Machinery, they might outvie the Chinese of the opposite shore, notwithstanding the greater cheapness of their Rents and labour.