Year: 1868

be remedled ana prevented on the bel- mont and the Pardo. 1 intend to ask of the Government many other conces- sions and favors for our people, of which l will inform ycu in due season.

 I suppose you would like to know what sort of a place have selected for our future home. I will try and tell you: The lands I have selected front upon the Belmont river six miles, and run back from the river two miles, From the rever's edge the land grad ually rises until it reaches an eleva- ton of at least two hundred feet, when it stretches away for miles and miles, one vast elevated plain covered with the tallest, the straightest and the most magnificent timber that I ever saw. Some of this timber is the most valua- ble in the world. There was formerly large amount of rosewood on these lands, but near the rivers most of it has been cut off, and shipped away. Still I found one 'sree oi, the land which I have selected, that is large enough to make all the furniture the families would need, and would be worth to- day, in the city of New fork, 5000 to S3000, There are great many other kinds of timber on these lands that are considered more valuable than the rosewood. As to the quality and fer tility of the lands, ask Pa what he knows about the rich hammock east of East Florida.--These are just such lands, except that they are richer and lie better than the Florida lands. I have travelled over the whole of them in company with Col. Leitner, who has lived and been planting upon a large scale in East Florida for the last tifteen.years, and he says that the coun- try is far superior to the rich ham mocks of Florida, and as a proof of his sincerity he has bought magnificent tract of land on the Pardo, and is now living upon it, having written back to his family and friends to make their arrangements and join him as soon as possible. The lands are rich, you may rest assured of that--as rich as the decaying foliage of forty centuries can make them. And the enormous crops that grow upon them! l can scarcely restrain myself from shouting aloud, when l think of this wonderful coun- try. which as l believe has been merci- fully reserved by the kind Benefactor, for the home and final resting place ot our oppressed people. Do you want good fruit? In no portion of Brazil, or Of the habitablc globe, can you find better oranges, bananas, and pine-ap- pies than grow here in the province of of Bahia; and there are twenty other kinds of fruit more delicious even than those 1 have named, whose names even l never heard of until | came to Bra gil that are growing and ripening all the year. Do you want country that will produce all the great staples oi the world, and produce. them to per lection? Well, the province of Bahia comes nearer filling the bill than any country have yet seen.-Sugar, coffee, cotton, tobacco, rice and corn grow here to perfection. Near the coast it may be too wet for short staple cotton, but, after leaving the coast hundred miles, it grows and bears magniticent- ly. But none of these things would have moved me, or caused me to select the section of country I have, had I not been convinced, beyond all doubt, that the country was healthy. If it is not so, then l am the worst deceived man upon earth. There is not n gallon of stagnant water in ten miles of where I shall build my house, nor has there been, nor will there ever be. But on the contrary, the whole tractys chequered here and there with the most beautiful brooks and rivulets that I ever saw in my life. They glide over beds of beautiful white sand gravel, and their waters are as pure and delicious to the taste as those that trickle and murniur at the foot of the Blue Ridge itself. In no land or coun- try have ever seen or drank better water. These streams afford sufficient water to turn any amount of machin- cry that we may need in fact, every man may have him mill, fine so de- sires.-Well, then, if under this vast el- evated plain, with the blessed trade winds forever flaming our cheeks, and these pure and delicious waters gliding past our dwellings; if, with the forests abounding in game, the river with fish, and the earth grooming beneath it's pre- cious load of staple products, vegeta- bles and delicious fruit-if, with all these advantages, we do not enjoy good healthethen despair of ever finding a place where we can.

 As to climate, the thermometer never rises above ninety and never goes be- low sixty degrees.

 The nights are very cool; always cover myself with blanket when can get one. l have not suffered one tenth part as much with heat since have been in Brazil as l would have suffered during the summer season in any portion of the United States.

 As to markets, we are only eighty miles from the sea, upon stream that is navigable the entire year; and when we get to the sea we arc two hundred miles from Bahia, and four hundred from Rio de Janerio, and these are the best markets in Brazil; we can choose between them. l have not mentioned