back, has not been sufficiently explored, with the view of ascertaining its natural products, to allow me to pronounce with certainty, that the Teak shall not in time be added to the exports of the Colóny. The same may, at present, be said of Mahogany. Of the wood I will endeavour to forward a small sample, to show the grain and cloud, by the Doris.

PROCESS OF DYING BLUE.

Three different sorts of leaves (and leaves only) are employed in dying Blue. The first are those of the common Indigo plant, which grows indigenous, or propagates itself as a common weed, which it is very difficult to exterminate in many parts of the country. The second species of leaf belongs to a plant of which I have not learnt the name, nor botanical classification. The third, and that most commonly employed, is of a very common tree, which seldom attains to a size larger than that of a full grown cherry tree. The leaf is of the same form, but more than double the size, and without its gloss, substance, and deep verdure. The sap of this leaf, immediately on exposure to the air-for which it requires only to be bruised, is itself a pale blue dye. A handfull of leaves, on being crushed and rolled in the hands for five minutes, leaves it stained, but not deeply.— The shade of this blue, is rather that distinguished by painters as the Blue Vert, than the Prussian.

There is, I believe, but one mode of obtaining the dye in use among the natives of the country-this is by steeping, or rather concocting it in common water, usually in a pot of clay, and placed in the sun for six to twelve days. No fire is used in any part of the process. How the dye is set in the interior, I have never been able to learn-but along the seacoast the only material in use, is a rich, fœted, and very black marine mud, commonly taken from the bottom of creeks very near the sea. The dye when ready for use, is plentifully mixed and tempered with the substance-and mud and dye, together, laid upon the cloth repeatedly, and on both sides-the material being dried after every application-for which purpose it is spread in the sun.This is the mode when the whole piece is to be dyed an uniform colour. When blue and white figures are to be produced, the white are either gathered and tied about with a strong cord, or

enclosed by a strong leaf being wrapped about it, and tied strongly at the neck of the gathering-in both of which ways the dye is excluded from the part intended to remain white, while it has free access to all the other parts. I need scarce remark, that in this latter operation, the piece is repeatedly immersed in the dye pot; in the other, as already observed, the dye is applied with a brush to the cloth, spread upon the sand.

COFFEE.

The Colony is wholly supplied with this article, from its own limits. Bought of the natives, it costs us 6 to 8 bars the bushel (82 40 to 3 20 African value), 60 lbs.—about five cents the pound. It would bear exportation as respects the price-but that the natives do not gather it in sufficient quantities. The time of colonists is too valuable to be spent in picking Coffee.— But the quantity cured every year increases, and several trading vessels have taken a part of what should have come to our settlements, the present year. But the factories purchase a supply for the colonists. The Coffee actually grown between Montserado and St. Johns, along the seacoast, cannot be estimated—but it is so great as to render it in time, even if no new plantations are made, an important article among the exports of the Colony. The tree, I have already stated, attains to the height of forty feet, with a trunk of six to eight inches, often at a small distance from the ground-but the best bearing trees are those which have not surpassed half that size. They appear to have an age equal to that of other forest trees of the same magnitude.

There is an inferior *species of the Coffee tree (such as is cultivated at Sierra Leone) found growing in the greatest profusion, on nearly all the high lands of the Colony. This grain is of less than half the size of the other; and of a pale, or grayish green hue; but the flavour is thought by many superior to the large green grain. The tree begins to bear at four or five feet high, and seldom exceeds seven or eight feet.

A Coffee tree, of the large kind, produces five to eight, and ten pounds, at the crop-of the inferior species, seldom more

* In size only.

than half a pound.-But it is to be considered that very few self-planted trees are in situations favourable for the testing of their prolific power.

J. ASHMUN.

These Institutions appear to be exerting themselves more vigorously; and scarcely a day passes, without bringing intelligence of some movement among our friends favourable to our great and holy cause. The interest which has been excited in the Western States, is becoming more deep, extensive and efficient; and, indeed, throughout nearly the whole country, feelings seem to be awakened, which will gain strength by exercise and every instance of success, and which cannot perish, because sanctified by religion. Now is the time for action. We are urged to it by every possible motive, and encouraged by the most auspicious events. On the Fourth of July the Colonization Society of King William county, Va., made its Annual Report, from which we intend hereafter to publish some extracts.

Auxiliary Society of Russelville, Kentucky.

Agreeably to notice, the citizens of this place met on the Fourth of July last, in the Methodist Church, to form themselves into a Colonization Society. The meeting was a very respectable one, and the opinion was universal that the measures to be adopted by this Society, and which were set forth in the Reports of the Parent Society, were sound and politic. The meeting having been organized and a constitution adopted, the following gentlemen were elected officers and managers:

At a very large and respectable meeting of the citizens of Chillicothe, holden at the Methodist Church on Monday evening, April 23, 1827, pursuant to public notice previously given, for the purpose of organizing an Auxiliary Colonization Society; after an appropriate Address to the Throne of Grace by the Rev. Mr. Graham, of the Presbyterian Church, and a very eloquent and interesting Discourse, explanatory of the objects and purposes of the meeting, by the Rev. M. M. Henkle, Agent of the American and Ohio State Colonization Societies, a Constitution was unanimously adopt. ed, and the following officers appointed:

The Society then adjourned until the 2d Monday in November next.

ANTHONY WALKE, Secretary.

GEORGE R. FITZGERALD, Chairman.

The following list was incorrectly published in our last Report:

Officers of the Raleigh Auxiliary Colonization Society.

Daniel Dupre, Treasurer.

Joseph Gales, Secretary.

List of the Officers of the Auxiliary Colonization Society of Connelsville, Pennsylvania.

Officers of the Auxiliary Colonization Society, of Bainbridge, Ohio.

Rev. Darthuk D. Hewett, President.

Jonathan Sayre, Vice-President.

Dr. B. O. Carpenter, Secretary.

William Hulan, Treasurer.

T. F. Armstrong,

Absalom Kent, Cor. Committee.
James M'Intosh,

We think, that all who will candidly peruse the letters from the Colonial Agent, published in this number, must acknowledge that, thus far, the expectations of the earliest and most enthusiastic advocates for African Colonization, have been more than realized. And, if in the course of ten years, a Society composed originally of few members and with scanty means, which in its greatest prosperity has received from the public charity a sum little exceeding annually ten thousand dollars, has done so much; what might not be accomplished were every prosperous citizen of the United States to aid this object-what might not be effected by the united powers of the States and the Nation?