SIX ESSAYS ON THE BEST MODE OF ESTABLISHING AND CONDUCTING INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS, ADAPTED TO THE WANTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES OF AN AGRICULTURAL POPULATION: WRITTEN FOR A PRIZE OF ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, OFFERED BY COWIE, JOLLAND, & CO., 31, POULTRY. PREFACE. THE Essays comprised in this volume were written for a prize of One Hundred Pounds, offered by His Excellency the Earl of Elgin and Kincardine, Governor of Jamaica. The intentions of His Excellency were explained, in a letter from His Honour the President of the Royal (then the General) Agricultural Society, to its Honorary Secretary, the Rev. Dr. S. H. Stewart : of which letter the following is a copy : Dear Sir, Spanish Town, November 11, 1843. His Excellency the Governor having commanded me to signify his intention of awarding, through the medium of the General Agricultural Society, two prizes of £100 each : one for the best Essay on the manufacture of Sugar, and the other on the best mode of establishing and conducting Industrial Schools, adapted to |