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generally without cellars or if they are provided with that convenience are so badly constructed as to occasion the loss of their Potatoes the first severe frost.

Many of them are industrious and have raised a considerable quantity of Potatoes last Summer, but the more helpless have fed upon them during Winter, so that they have all for some time been upon an equality in wretchedness. Their cloathing is generally very bad, & bears a proportion to their other distresses.

Captain Scott in the accompanying list has particularized some, who from their superior industry have provided themselves better than the generallity - And all those under the head of "Neighbourhood of Dartmouth" are by no means so distressing objects as those in and about the Preston settlements.

A few of the most deserving of those at Preston, have had grants of land in addition to the Ten Acres - and some vacant lands remain in that neighbourhood, which was intended for further location by the blacks

Dartmouth March 19th