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Carolina, Georgia, and Cape Fair, they had thirty eight, whofe loading confiiled 

 chiefly of rice, leather, lumber, fhingles and tar. 



From the Iflands of Bermudas, Turk, and Providence, they had fix veflels load- 

 ed chiefly with braziletto, turtle, fait, fim, poultry, onions and building ftones. 

 all 230, mips and fmaller velTels. 



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Vefjeh trading to the 



Although the trade, which formerly ufed to be fuccefsfully carried on with the 

 [ghbour'mgSpamards, be now wholly loft ; there are ftill a few* who venture more 



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fs upon the'coafr, and among the Indians; though generally attended with 



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d very little profit 



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veffels from thofe parts, that entered in 



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in the courfe of that year, are as follows, viz. twenty three immedi 

 n different parts of the coafr, whofe loading confifted chiefly of mules 



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cacoa, and fome gold and lilver fp 



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and a few wines (a) : nine from Curaffoa with mul 



three from Hifpaniola, with m 



of Hondu 



from the bay 



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wood 



gwood : and five from the Mujkceto more with mahoganj 

 1 and turtle. In all 49, fmall veffels. 



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From Europe, 



From North America^ 



From the Coaft, and neighbouring Iflands, 



In all 



189 

 230 



49 

 468 



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I am next to compute the value of fome of the principal commodities imported 



into this Iiland annually, and would have willingly gone through the whole, could 

 the quantities or value of them be afcertained 5 but this was impoflible where the 

 greateft part of the imports pays no duties ; and many principal articles are entered 

 fo confufedly, that no juft calculation can be made either of their quantities or value -, 



for which reafon, we fhall now lay down only fuch as we have no reafon to 



doubt of. 



The mofl expenfive articles among 



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the imports of Jamaica, are thofe imme 



d iately 



introduced from England: the value of thefe has been lately calculated, 

 to be laid before the parliament, and on an exact computation for four years end- 

 ing in December 1751, has been found at a medium, to amount 10261728/. 55. 

 J-er. per annum, which, in that Iiland, would amount to 458924 /. 8 s. gd. currency, 

 as goods are generally debited there. ' But, as we may reasonably fuppofe a fourth 

 part of thofe, at the mod moderate calculation, to be imported by the planters them- . 

 felves, and fubjedt to none of thofe extraordinary charges to which debited goods 

 are liable j I have computed the whole to amount to 43 1676 /. 8 s. 34 d. currency, 

 every year : to which we may add above feventy thoufand pounds, expended annually 

 in England by the planters of Jamaica refiding there $ and in the education of their 



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New Negroes form the next article in value ; and though the number of thefe be 



leffened by near a third part fince the beginning of the war, they now feldom 

 amount to lefsthan 235000 /. currency, per annum; the number of thefe imported 

 in 1752, did not exceed 6624 ; but they begin to encreafe, and before the war, ge- 

 nerally were about 9000 at a medium. 



Irifi provifions form another considerable branch of the imports of Jamaica, and 

 thefe in the year 1752, (and it is nearly the fame every year) were as follows, viz. 

 1 9921 barrels of beef, 4307^ barrels of pork, and 15876 firkins of butter 5 which 





(a) 1 he wines imported from that ifland are but few, and generally run, as they cannot be entered in 

 the Cuftom-houfe - t they are commonly cordial wines, and much wanted there in fickly feafons ; there- 

 fore overlooked. ' 



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