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shortly expected. The Superintendent appeared de lighted with the industry of the immigrants, and in deed shewed us sufficient proofs of it, in the quantity of land they have already brought into cultivation. The men are fine, athletic peasants. They seemed cheerful, and expressed themselves satisfied with their new country ; they were employed in making a piece of road, towards the expence of which the island has granted a sum of money. Their children looked happy, and their blue eyes, laughing faces and bare feet, re minded us of their native mountains. Their wives, however, generally appeared home-sick. The circum stance which gave us the least satisfaction was the des titution of the means of religious instruction. There was formerly a resident minister, connected with the Church Missionary Society, stationed at the Maroon Town, four miles distant, but he has recently been withdrawn by the bishop. It is the intention of the legislature to form a colony of white immigrants in each of the three grand divisions of the island ; the eastern part of it called the county of Surrey, the cen tral Middlesex, and the western Cornwall. The one in Cornwall has already been formed, and is called Seaford Town. We did not visit it, but heard a very unfavorable account of its progress. The Middle sex colony is not yet in existence. This, of Alta mont in Surrey, has probably the best promise of suc cess, as considerable attention has been paid to the selection of the families. While, however, we have thus expressed the agreeable impressions we received from our visit to Altamont, we cannot but consider the artificial system, upon which the settlement has been formed, as most unlikely to produce good results of a permanent nature. In addition to the formation