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Another new source may be in India. 

 Sugar has not become a common article 

 from that quarter till lately. When ia 

 17Q2, it sold there 1 5s. or \8s. near four 

 Spanish dollars a hundred, it was sold 50j. 

 to GOJ-, in London. A sudden and till then 

 unknown demand for sugars by Europe 

 and America occasioned an increased price 

 in India : and the demand having continu- 

 ed and increased, has stimulated the Indo- 

 jtans to increase the culture of sugar canes 

 with great spirit, for supplying Europe and 

 America with sugar. The Calcutta ga- 

 zettes are fall of the designs of planting 

 and cultivating the sugar cane : and now 

 we are assured by some of our country- 

 men, who have been lately in India, that 

 the 'wheat tff that country is very fine, and 

 is sold at 1 1 d. sterling for an English 

 bushel. If then their sugar makes a freight 

 and a profit when carried to Europe, so 

 may their wheat ; provided it should bear 

 so long a voyage. It would sell at above 

 SOO per cent, when their sugars would 



