Drawn by 6.C.J.Kennion.

Aiew of Petersfield Ingar. Plantatica Jamaica

London Published April 10.3017

COLONIAL JOURNAL.

No. V.

MARCH,

1817.

(TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY.)

© London:

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Printed by G. Davidson, Old Boswell Court: for
BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY, PATERNOSTER ROW;

J. M. RICHARDSON, CORNHILL; J. BOOTH, DUKE-STREET,
PORTLAND-PLACE; W. BLACKWood, Edinburgh;

AND J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.

CONTENTS OF No. V.

I. COLONIAL SCENERY, PLÁTE V.—A View of Petersfield

Sugar-Plantation, in the Island of Jamaica, engraved by

Mr. J. Bennet, from a Drawing by Mr. C. J. Kennion, after

a Sketch made on the Spot; with a Description.-New

"West Indian Sketchés."

III. POETRY

II. COLONIAL ZOOLOGY, PLATE V-A Coloured Figure

of the Guanaco, &c. drawn and engraved by Mr. T. Wage.

man; with a Description. Mistakes of Buffou, Linnæus,

Pennant, Shaw, &c.

Jamaica; a Descriptive and Didatic Poem, by the late
Bryan Edwards, Esq.

IGATIO

IV. ON IMPROVING THE NAVIGATION OF THE RIVER ST.

LAWRENCE, with Reflections on the Commercial and

Military Advantages to be obtained, and on the Commercial

Prospects of Canada

V. ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE BRITISH SUGAR-

TRADE

VI. ON THE CULTIVATION OF TOBACCO IN ENGLAND

VII. ON THE VIRTUES OF THE GUACO-PLANT OF SOUTH

AMERICA

XII. COLONIAL COLLECTIONS

VIII. ON THE POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF FLORIDA

ORTANCE

IX. SOME ACCOUNT OF FLORIDA

X. COPY OF A MEMOIR ON THE PRESENT SITUATION

OF EAST AND WEST FLORIDA, written in the Year

1810, for presentation to the Spanish Government

XI. NATURAL HISTORY OF THE STORMY PETREL,
otherwise called Mother Carey's Chicken

Certaine Inducements to Well-minded People who are

heere straitened in their estates, or otherwise: or such

as are willing, out of Noble and Publique principles, to

transport themselves, or servants, or agents for them,

into the West Indies, for the propagating the Gospell,

and increase of Trade

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XIII. COLONIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY; being, Titles and Brief Des-

criptious of Printed and Manuscript Works on the Colonies,

preserved in Public and Private Libraries, and especially in

the Libraries of the British Museum, and of the Royal,
London, and Surry Institutions

XIV. HISTORY AND PRESENT STATE OF THE BRITISH

EAST AND WEST INDIA TRADE OF THE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA

XV. MR. WALTON ON THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA, consi-

dered as affording a Passage to unite the Pacific with the

Atlantic or Western Ocean; and that Passage (if practi-

cable) compared with the Land Route over the Buenos

Ayres Plains

XVI. REVIEW OF BOOKS

1. De Pradt's Trois Ages des Colonies

2. De Pradt's Colonies et Revolution Actuelle de l'Aine-

rique

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3. De Pradt on the Colonies and the present American

Revolutions

2. Return of His Majesty's Troops stationed at Jamaica

3. Ships and Vessels on the Jamaica Station

4. Maroon Establishments

5. Tonnage of Jamaica Trade

6. Exports of Jamaica, 1816

7. Imports of the same

8. Militia of Jamaica

XV1I. SUMMARY OF COLONIAL AFFAIRS in March, 1817

British West Indies-Libel of the African Institution-

Colonial Acts for the Registration of Slaves, &c.—Jamaica

Summary of Givings-in-Decrease of Slaves, Stock, and

Acres of Cultivated Land―Proposition of a Discrimina-

tive Registry of Slaves, showing the respective numbers

of Males and Females, Africaus and Creoles, African

and Creole Slave Deaths, Slave Births, &c.

XVIII. STATE AND OFFICIAL PAPERS

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BERBICE.

1. Report of the Commissiouers appointed for the Manage-

ment of the Crown Estates of Berbice

JAMAICA.

9. Slaves, Stock, and Acres of Land; amount of Land-tax

and Poll-tax Rolls

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10. Receipts of Cash for the four Quarters ending 30th Sep-

tember, 1816