A. D. 1788. 



161 



The imports from tlie same colonies into Great Britain, which in the year 1763, 

 when we possessed the Havanna and several other French and Spanish settlements, 

 amounted to - - - ^1,014,249 1^ 1, 



varied afterwards from ^80,753 in 1765 to ^729 in 1774, 

 till the year 1783, when they amounted to - - 189,621 12 11, 



from which they sunk every year, being in 1787 only - 8,640 O 5. 



The principal articles of thefe imports in the years 1785 and 1786, 

 and the value of the whole, were as follow. 



S'. Lucie in - 



S'. Thomas 



Tobago 

 New Orleans 

 S'. Martins - 

 Cura5oa - - 

 Cuba - - 

 Demararay - 

 Trinidad - - 

 St. Eustathius 

 Totals - - 



An Account of the export trade from the Brit if 3 Wef -India colonies to the 

 United fates of America, from the peace till the end of year 1787 *. 



Sugar cwt. 



Rum gal. 



Molasses gal 



Cotton lb 



Coffee cwt. 



Cacao cwt. 



Pirnento lb. 



Ginger cwt. 



Dye-woods tmis 



Salt bushels 



Beef and pork bar. 



Negroes n". 



Befides theie there were Tome mahogany, hides, tobacco, foap, candles, 

 limes, &c. No value is fpecified in the account, n". 21, whence this 

 abflrad is taken : but the account inferted above in p. 158, fliows that 

 the exports for the year 1787 amounted to ;{^i 96,461 fterling, exclufive 

 of the fait, provifions, and negroes. The fait was fliipped from Antigua, 

 Grenada, Jamaica, S'. Chriftophers, Tortola, and Barbados : and there 

 is no account of any fhipped from Turk's illands, of which it is the 

 only commodity. 



There is no account of the imports from the United flates. 



Vol. IV. 



Report, part iv, n". 21. 



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