COMMERCE EXPORTS. 



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sugar, 400,321 gallons of rum ; 1,362,605 gallons of molasses, 

 2,206,467 lbs. of cacao; 226,123 lbs. of coffee; 25,203 lbs. of 

 cotton. Increase : sugar, molasses, and cacao. Decrease : 

 rum, coffee, and cotton. Quantity exported of the latter 

 article, 25,203 lbs., instead of 800,009 lbs. in 1809. From 

 1839, the quantity of sugar was reckoned in hogsheads instead 

 of pounds, and molasses and rum in puncheons instead of 

 gallons : — 



The hogshead maybe taken as weighing 1,800 lbs. net; the pun- 

 cheon of molasses as containing 110 gallons, and the puncheon 

 of rum as containing 100 gallons. In 1839, the year imme- 

 diately following emancipation, the quantity of sugar was 

 only 21,422 hogsheads, or about 38,559,000 lbs; in 1829, ten 

 years previously, it was 50,089,221 lbs. It seems that the 

 proportion of molasses ought to correspond to the quantity of 

 sugar. Such, however, is not the case, as may be ascertained by 

 reference to the above table, the quantity drained from the 

 muscovado varying each year, being larger or lesser, according 

 to the condition of the canes. 



