This practice was now becoming disreputable.

There had been a great alteration as to the observance of the Sabbath; formerly more business was done in St.John's on Sunday, by the merchants, than on all the other days of the week together.

The mercantile business of the town had increased astonishingly; he thought that the stores and shops had multiplied in a _ratio of ten to one_.

Mechanical pursuits were likewise in a flourishing condition.

Dr.F.said that a greater number of buildings had been erected since emancipation, than had been put up for twenty years before.