APPENDIX.] WEST INDIES. 265 



PARISHES. si 5 -3 ^5. 3 = 



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Total in the county of Surry 93 45 22 14 





St. Andrew 14 8 2 1 o 



Port Royal ... 3 10 



Portland . . 15 6 1 42 



St. George . .73 435 



St. Thomas in the East 48 23 14 50 



St. David . 65 101 



Kingston ... 000 



GRAND TOTAL . 451 177 92 55 47 



Summary. 



Existing plantations in 1791 - - 720 



Plantations then recently settled or settling 47 



Total number of sugar estates in 1791 . . 767 



Observations. 



From the preceding table it is sufficiently obvious, that in 

 the course of twenty years ending 1791, the planters of Ja- 

 maica (however profitably employed in the service of the mo- 

 ther-country) were labouring to little purpose for themselves: 

 it appearing that no less than 177 sugar plantations had been 

 sold during that period, for the payment of debts ; that 55 

 had been abandoned by the proprietors, and that 92 others re- 



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