pasture  and  grain  farms,  affording  most  abundantly  every  spe-
cies of  agricultural  produce,  and  maintaining  large  herds  of
stock  of  every  description ;  these  have  been  gradually  estab-
lished ;  and  it  is  the  intention  of  the  company  still  further  not
only  to  augment  and  increase  them,  to  establish  an  export  trade
in  wool,  taUow,  hides,  and  other  agricultural  produce,  but  to
encourage  the  settlement  of  their  retired  servants  and  other  emi-
grants under  their  protection.  The  soil,  climate,  and  other  cir-
cumstances of  the  country  are  as  much  adapted  to  agricultural
pursuits  as  any  other  spot  in  America  ;  and  with  care  and  pro-
tection the  British  dominion  may  not  only  be  preserved  in  this
country,  which  it  has  been  so  much  the  wish  of  Russia  and
America  to  occupy  to  the  exclusion  of  British  subjects,  but  Brit-
ish interest  and  British  influence  may  be  maintained  as  para-
mount in  this  interesting  part  of  the  coast  of  the  Pacific."

So  much  for  the  material  means  at  their  command.  They  do
not  teU  us  of  the  number  of  their  servants  or  the  men — one  day
"  to  be  retired" — under  their  supervision,  with  whom  "  British
influence  and  dominion"  was  already  paramount,  but  directly
and  indirectly  they  must  have  been  a  majority  in  that  early
day.
