They are inclined to industry. The only means of making money is by fishing, except what they make by their small farms. Houses and fuel Houses miserable to a degree and very dirty, without any comforts. I mean the cabins of the common people in general. Those who have large farms have their houses tolerably comfortable.
Fuel is plenty as the mountain is convenient, which produces abundance of turf.
There seems to be a general desire among the lower orders to educate their children, as appeared obvious from a Sunday school lately established under the auspices of Mr and Mrs Staples, and which was well attended by children of every denomination until the Catholic clergy forbid any of the children of their flock from attending the school, though there was not the least interference with any of their religious tenets by any person connected with the school. The state of health is generally good. Fevers and other occasional diseases prevail, which I consider might be remedied in a great measure by cleanliness.