224 J A M A I C A. 



This is not to be deemed the prefent ftate, becaufe the flock and 

 produce may well be fuppofed to have been conftantly increafing 

 ever fince the year mentioned. I have therefore only fubmitted this 

 fcheme for the fake of pr.eferving uniformity, agreeably to iny firfh 

 defign of bringing the progrcfs of the feveral parifl:\es down to 

 ir68; beyond which, I have not been able to obtain any very 

 exat£l calculation. 



General State of the County £)f Cornwall. 



County-town, iravannah la Mar, where the Ailizes are held in the 



months of March, June, September, and December. 



Annual Produce. 

 Negroes. Catfle. Sugar-plantations. Hogdieads. Other Settlements. 



60616 54776 266 29100 383 



Re6lories and Stipends. 



St. Elizabeth, 



Weflmoreland, — 

 Hanover, ■ 

 St. James, -^— — . 

 Trelawny, • 



£ 1050 o o 

 Churches, 24 — Chapels, 2; — Synagogue, o. 

 From hence will appear, that this county, though poflefTIng 

 fewer Negroes and cattle than Middlefex, is neverthelefs more 

 productive. This may be afcribed to the greater frefhnefs of the 

 land in general ; to the greater quantity of feafonable rains, and of 

 cane-land, fituated more conveniently with refpeft to Ihipping- 

 places. The North fide parishes labour under the inconvenience of 

 late cropSj l^igli infu ranee, a voyage homewards in the mod dan- 

 gerous feafonof the year, and a high freight to the Kingflon mar- 

 ket. All thefe are attended with double charge in war-time. Not- 

 withftanding thefe obftacles, we find that moft of them are in a 

 flourifliing condition. The parifhes of St. George and Portland 

 feem to be the only exceptions. The quantity of fugar produced 

 in both of them together is not ^qual to the half of what is made 

 in St. Mary's. There are natural difficulties with which the fettlers 

 in them have to ftruggle. To thefe are added the others before-re- 

 cited, to which the reflate liable in common. Perhaps a bounty 



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