And indeed, Nature had done her part to make such a project easy of accomplishment.

But Rodney's advice was not taken--any more than his advice to people the island, by having a considerable quantity of land in each parish allotted to ten-acre men (i.e.white yeomen), under penalty of forfeiting it to the Crown should it be ever converted to any other use than provision ground (i.e.thrown into sugar estates).

This advice shows that Rodney's genius, though, with the prejudices of his time, he supported not only slavery, but the slave-trade itself, had perceived one of the most fatal weaknesses of the slave-holding and sugar-growing system.

And well it would have been for St.Lucia if his advice had been taken.

But neither ten-acre men nor dockyards were ever established in St. Lucia.