His plantation is well cultivated and clean, and his people are as industrious and civil as they ever were.

He employs them during their own time, and always finds them willing to work for him, unless their own grounds require their attendance.

Cultivation generally, through the island, is as good as it ever was.

Many of the planters, at the commencement of the apprenticeship, reduced the quantity of land cultivated; he did not do so, but on the contrary is extending his plantation.
3.

The crops this year are not so good as usual.