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Show 140 JAMAICA. M, ount C arey I·S Iar," e , ·•m d the day school well attended and admirably conducted. The appearance, dress, and de_rortment of the peo-ple, assembled at our large meetmgs at Montego Bay and Mount Carey, afforded us ocular demonstration that we were iu" the midst of a thriving peasantry; nor can there be the least question that this condition of thrift, on their part, is mainly the consequence of their working for wages, on the estates of their old masters. The remainin~ exceptions, in this fertile district, to a comfortable understanding between the employer and the laborer, are to be traced, as we had every reason to believe, to a want of good management on the part of attorneys and overseers. But a gradual improvement, even in these instances, was taking place; and indeed the mismanagement to which we allude belonged, in some cases, chiefly to the period of apprenticeship, which left behind it 1·oots of bitterness by no means easy to eradicate. This appears to have been the case with some noble properties, near Mount Carey, belonging to an English Baron-of course an absentee. We visited the principal of them, on which, during the apprenticeship, much cruelty bad been practised; and even just before our visit, certain provision grounds, improperly occupied (as we were told) by some of the negroes, had been, far more 'lYk properlij, despoiled, by the turning in of oxen upon them. We were pleased to find that Lord - had transmitted to his agents some admirable written directions- esp,ecially with regard to the equitable set· 'h 'f dement of the questions of rent and wagcs-wh1c ' 1 .JAMAICA. 141 fairly ac. ted on, . will, as we believe ' e nsuJ ,e t h e f.u ture prospenty. of Ins estates. A bout on e h un d reu.1 and fifty of Ius people atten. ded. our meetin g [;o r worsh1· p at M. ount Carey: an. d, after 1t was over, we en t ereu.1 m· to a frJCndly parley With them ' with a v1"e w o f 1· mpress·m g upon them their christian duty1 as hi"re-1 1 . ' u cu t1 vators of the soil. They appeared to us •a ••• veil -conu.11, t1· 0ne d com~~my of peasants; and they gave us a respectful h~arm~:-fully acknowledging the fair and benevolent d1spostt1on of the absent proprietor of th e es t ates. W e parted from them with the bright hope that what-soever r. emains of misunderstan u.1 1·11g b e t ween t he m and their employers, will ere long be removed; and ~hat a t.r~ct o~ land, remarkable for natural beauty and fertility, will soon be equally distinguished b th profit which it yields to its owner and b tl y e I ' • y 1e peace am comfort of all who dwell on it. Just such a scene of mutual satl"sf:actl"on .is "Chil-drrma~ ·· estate, in the same neighborhood,' under the care o. . f- M·'1 tthe ws, a k"I ll d an d m. telh.g ent overseer. . Our fnend employs one hundred and twenty laborers who are working admirably; he hao obtained sixty~ :wo hogsheads of sugar from the last crop and is lay~ g the f~undation of a largely increas~d produce. th:~las butlt his people comfortable cottages, charges low rents, and pays them good wages. There can be no que s f wn t h at t h e proprietor's outlay will soon be abunda ti "d k n Y repm · It may however be re-mar rd ' tJ Ja t I, ll t h I·S case there was evidently the ad vantage of a rea I · 1 • - , l Y capita · lt 1s worthy of more than a passmg no fI.c e, t h at the constant tendency of slavery wastodimin" I . I , • JS 1 capita ;, and now that it is exchanged |