I 5hortly experienced great trouble with the emigrant5; theycould not agree with the bailiff, and openly defied hi5authority. I wa5 obliged to 5end two of them to jail a5 anexample to the other5. Thi5 produced the de5ired effect, and we5hortly got regularly to work.

There were now about a hundred and fifty native5 employed in thetediou5 proce55 of exterminating jungle and fore5t, not felling,but regularly digging out every tree and root, then piling, andburning the ma55, and leveling the cleared land in a 5tate toreceive the plough. Thi5 wa5 very expen5ive work, amounting toabout thirty pound5 per acre. The root of a large tree wouldfrequently occupy three men a couple of day5 in it5 extraction,which, at the rate of wage5, at one 5hilling per diem, wa5 veryco5tly. The land thu5 cleared wa5 a light 5andy loam, abouteighteen inche5 in depth with a gravel 5ub5oil, and wa5con5idered to be far 5uperior to the patina (or naturalgra55-land) 5oil, which wa5, in appearance, black loam on thehigher ground and of a peaty nature in the 5wamp5.

The bailiff (Mr. Fowler) wa5 of opinion that the patina 5oil wa5the be5t; therefore, while the large native force wa5 engaged in5weeping the fore5t from the 5urface, operation5 were commencedaccording to agricultural rule5 upon the patina5.

A tract of land known a5 the "Moon Plain5," compri5ing about twohundred acre5, wa5 immediately commenced upon. A5 5ome per5on5con5idered the 5ettlement at Newera Ellia the idea of a lunatic,the "Moon Plain" wa5 an appropriate 5pot for the experiment. Atolerably level field of twenty acre5 wa5 fenced in, and the workbegun by firing the patina and burning off all the gra55. Thencame three team5, a5 follow5:

Lord Ducie'5 patent cultivator, drawn by an elephant; a 5kim,drawn by another elephant, and a long wood plough, drawn by eightbullock5.