SUGAR EXPORT. SHIPPING. 



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zuela will ever make it one of the most valuable possessions of 

 the British empire. It is to be regretted that the same comparison 

 cannot be established respecting exports. The table, on this 

 head, will be confined to sugar exclusive of Jamaica, however, 

 the position of which forms such a painful contrast to that of 

 the others. 



SUGAR EXPORTED TO THE UNITED KINGDOM. 1852. 



This again shows that, proportionally to its population, Trinidad 

 exports more sugar than either Barbadoes or British Guayana ; 

 and the article sugar may be adopted as a fair test with regard 

 to exports; for, allowing that Barbadces and Guayana did ship 

 more rum, Trinidad exported, as a counterbalance, a large 

 quantity of cacao. 



By comparing the shipping inward, the following conclusion 

 is obtained : 



In this respect, Trinidad and Guayana are on a par; but, 

 alas ! how depressed is poor Jamaica Jamaica once the centre 

 of an extensive trade with the neighbouring countries ! 



NOTE. Justified by etymological and botanical analogy, encouraged also by 

 Dr. Lindley's example, I have throughout made use of the word cacao instead 

 of cocoa, to designate the theobroma cacao ; and of the term coco, instead of 

 cocoa-nut, to distinguish the Cocos nucifera. Cacao is of Mexican origin, and 

 cocos is the botanical name of the cocoa-nut tree. Moreover, it is impossible that 

 the application of the same term to two plants, so widely different in all respects 

 as the cacao and coco-tree, should not create confusion in the mind. 



