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Gentlemen

It is now rather more than Eleven years since I went to reside on Sable Island, as a Superintendant leaving a profitable business behind me in Halifax and at the suggestion of the worthy Commissioner of those days, to endeavour to find out the best method of improving and making the Establishment to be more generally useful; I found it in a very inefficient state; I had agreed for One hundred Pounds per annum to Superintend only, but finding the Establishment utterly destitute of many things that were absolutely necessary, that I applied myself to Mechanical Labours, and by the dent of great exertions I have constructed principally with my own hands, upwards of Thirty Houses of different sizes some of them were Houses for the preservation of Shipwrecked property after it is saved on the Island; also Eight Two Wheel Carts, and one four Wheeled Waggon, also a Portable Wharf of Fifty feet Long standing on Two pair of Wheels, with a Capstan to heave it up out of the Water, and a House built over it, besides some Copper fastened Boats built on a principal peculiarly adapted to the Service of working in the Surf on the Beaches, Two of which Boats alone are worth £28-0-0, Now this has all been done with very little or, no expence to the Establishment, and without the assistance of Mechanical Men of any kind, And