the choice of lands, proper for the immediate cultivation of the ſugar-cane, had choſen ſuch places in the interior parts of the country, as were on the tops of high mountains, or ſurrounded by vaſt woods; which affording too much ſhelter from the ſun, and being ſubject to too frequent great rains, chilled the canes, rendering their juice unfit for making ſugar. Not but that, was the whole of the cultivable lands there to be cleared of their woods, there are few ſituations, even in the moſt interior parts, but would be proper for the growth of that article.
By this imprudent conduct of ſuch of the new ſettlers, after they had ſpent conſiderable ſums of money, which they had borrowed on the credit of their plantations ſo ſituated, and having loft a number of negroes and cattle by the dampneſs of the climate in thoſe places, together with the difficult and laborious roads to them, they were at length driven to the ne-
