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of twenty (hillings per hogfhcad might bs fome encouragement to 

 the feebler fettlers ; it would at leafl enable them to carry their fu- 

 gars to the Kingfton market freight-free ; for it is not the leaft of 

 the misfortunes attendant upon their fituation, that they are obliged 

 to pay nearly thrice as much, for the traniport of a hogfhead of 

 fugar to that market, as a (hipper at Old Harbour on the South 

 fide. But the preffure of this tax will appear in a more confpicuous 

 light from the following table of 



WATER-CARRIAGE from Kings rosf to the Out-Ports. 



Out-ports. 



Old Hnrbour and PeaV Bav, 

 Withy Wood & Milk River, 



Salt River, ■ 



Black River, 



White-houle, near Scot's 1 

 Cove, St. Elizabeth, — J 



The Hope, 



Wellmorelaiid, . 



Hanover and all North lide, 



Rlorant Bay, 



Port Morant, 



, Yallah's Bay, 



WATER-CARRIAGE, .as above, continued. 



Out-ports. 



Ginijcr 

 per Cwt, 

 or Bat;. 

 ^. d. 

 I o 

 I o 

 I o 



' 3 

 I 3 



rof 



9 



o 

 o 

 o 



Boards, 



and 

 Planks. 



s. d. 



20 o 



= 3 .f 



23 'i 



25 o 



25 o 



27 6 



3; o 

 23 If 

 23 «i 

 20 o 



Old Harbour and Peak Bav, 

 Withy Wood &: Milk River, 



Salt River, 



Black River, 



White-houfe, near Scot's ] 

 Cove, St. Elizabeth, — J 



The Hope, 



AVeftmoreland, 



Hanover and all North lidc, 



Morant E.ay, — — 



Port IMorant, 



Yallah'sBay, 



Thefe charges are advanced, by an a6l of aflembly, fifty per cent. 

 in time of war. From hence will appear the utility of eftablifhiiig 

 Port Antonio as a place of trade; by which means the fettlers iu 

 both parifhes would be relieved from this heavy burthen, and put 

 in a condition of meeting their fellows-planters of the richer diftrids 

 upon a more equal footing at the Britifli market. 



It remains only for me to fay, that as the perfefting thofe roads 

 nlready ftruck through the interior part of tlie country, and opening 



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