“ There has been, however, here and there, a solitary instance of a contrary nature, in the knowledge of Coor, Forster, Captain Smith, Duncan, and Fitzmaurice; and these declare, that where such moral and religious instruction have been encouraged, the slaves have shewn a better disposition and behaviour; that they have also paid a more general attention to marriage, and that they have increased more by the births. ”

“ All these evils are abundantly stated in the evidence, and, it is therefore clear, that the above regulation would have a tendency to obtain protection for the slaves, in cases of unmerited or excessive punishment, on the part, of the overseer: for, by the 3d regulation, it would be the interest of the attorney to inquire into their complaints, and redress them, and not, as at present, to wink at their oppression; and by this regulation, he would be at hand and have time to do his duty. The slaves also would not be precluded by distance, from preferring their own complaints. ”

“ If a hundred negroes cultivate as many acres of cane, and fifty acres be deducted for their support, it is not improbable but that the fifty in canes, with the labour of a hundred persons, may produce as much as the hundred acres before; for a hundred labourers are better able to cultivate and improve fifty, than twice the number of acres, and the earth will remunerate in proportion to the toil and improvement bestowed upon it. ”

“ The introduction of the plough would, in the opinion of Forster, Sir G. Young, Rees, Harrison, Giles, and Duncan, save the slaves much labour. Mr. Fitzmaurice has known it answer this end. Mr. Woodward and Mr. J. Woodward farther confirm the same: the former has reduced its utility on his own estate to the following rule: one plough, two men, and four horses, do as much work as thirty negroes, and, after the plough, it does not require, says he, much negro labour to prepare the ground for the cane. ”

“ Botham, the space between the rows is ploughed deep, the cane tops tied up, and an instrument like a broad shovel, with teeth at the bottom, a spade handle, and two cords fixed to the body of the shovel, ending by a wooden handle for a purchase, is used by two persons to earth up the cane, the strongest holding the handle of the shovel, and pressing it into the ploughed earth, while the other on the opposite side of the plant, by a jerk of the cord, draws up to the plant all the earth that the plough had loosened. ”