A great many fields are reduced to the fine dust above described to receive the sugar-cane, which is planted in February.

The soil is muteear, but has in many parts become impaired by over-cropping.

The people told me that the crops were not so rich as they ought to be, from the want of manure, which is much felt here, where there is so little pasture for cattle.

The wheat has almost everywhere received an orange tint from the geerwa, or blight, which covers the leaves, but, happily, has not as yet settled upon the stalks to feed on the sap.

This blight, the cultivators say, arises from the late and heavy rain they have had, and the easterly wind that prevailed for a few days.