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Market had been granted to him, which Cosited in the reclamation of ground from the An, the contmotion of a the wall, and the erection of a Police Station,

r Bor, and suitable buildings for the Market, some of which services had been carried into effect, to the great snemvenience of the Public, but as he is mor proceeding. with much rigune, it is probable to may finish the work in the time set forth in lis Band.

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I regret to trouve to allude to the still facemiling faction of burning the bruch-

wood

in the hills; it comes mexleulable mivel if to the whole island, stips the grnoth of all indigenous trees, and Imed hardly story detracts in no insouosiderable degree from the sixtural beauty and picturesqueness of the districts.

The preservation of the trees, whether

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planted by Government for the general good, or the natural growth of the island, I coverive should be specially the

the duty of the Police or the Sefirs of the localities in

Tepes swhich these fires annually recur, it perhaps would be imposible to catch the men in the act, but as it is well...

kunou_wles are the frontios solo do the damage, if they were properly scored our to the Emergen Severe punidiments inflicted for somering

es, and two or three

the charred in burnt brushwood, the ent

would be corrected in one Sexson; the

healthiness of the Island, Consequent afron the steady increase of segitation, conild be materially informed, and the temperative considerably reduced..

In the early port of the Summer my becaulthe suffered very munterially from a most pecution ernfitive fever, which_

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