GUA 
Banana trees . 2,028,520 
Ditches of manioc . 32,577,950 
Bicteds (2.4. 4946 
“Mules 2924 
Asses 125 
Boeyes’ (5 Sarat es 13,916 
Sheep and goats. . . . 11,162 
Swittes 5, Fern oe eae 24.44 
In 1767, France received from Guadaloupe, 
Fine sugar . 140,418 quintals. 
Raw sugar... . - 23,603 
Cokes soins 84,205 
Cotton os 11,955 
Cacao 456 
Ober... Ses 1884 
Campeachy wood. . 2529 
Confections ..... 24 boxes. 
Liqueurs : 165 boxes. 
Potassia 34 casks. 
Sema) 6 ets ; 1202 No. 
These articles were sold in the colony for 7,103,838 
livres, while the articles imported from France cost 
4,523,884 livres, leaving a balance in favour of the co- 
lony of 2,579,954 livres. 
In 1767, Guadaloupe contained 
Whites wACtaglc 12,700 
Blacks, or free Negroes . vw. .dnD0 
PHEW ON Sos. tor) eh era.e 223 - 100,000 
Horses and mules . . 9220 
Horned cattle 5) ace Sain ok es en ee 
Sheep, swine, and goats, . . 25,400 
Tt possessed at the same time, 
Feet of cacao .. . - + 449,622 
Feet of cotton . . . . 11,974,046 
Feet of coffee - «+ 18,799,680 
Sugar houses STAs > 388 
In the year 1775, eighty-one vessels returned to 
France loaded with the following produce : 
Value in Europe. 
Raw sugar 188,384 quintals. 7,137,930 livres. 
Coffee . . 63,029 2,993,860 
Indigo 1438 1,222,529 
Cacao. 1023 71,651 
Cotton 5193 1,298,437 
Skins . 727 6973 
and some other.articles of minor importance. 
The value of the imports and exports, was in 
4 Imports. Exports. 
1767 livres 4,523,884 7,103,838 
1788 5,362,000 15,053,000 
Several of the.productions of Guadaloupe were for- 
merly sent to Martinique ; and America received some 
of its liqueurs, and other commodities, and sent in re- 
turn, wood, cattle, flour, and cod fish. 
In 1789, the population of all descriptions was about 
104,000. The island is well stored with horned cattle, 
sheep, horses, &c, and produces a vast abundance of 
sugar, coffee, rum, ginger, cocoa, logwood, &c. 
GUIACUM. See Cuemistry, vok vi. p. 124, Sect. 
XXiv. 
_ GUAM, or Guauon as. it is called by the natives, 
is an island in the eastern seas, forming one of the 
group denominated Ladrones, or Marianne islands, 
According to the computation of the Spaniards, it is 
about 120 miles in circuit, apparently flat and even 
from a distance, but the east coast, on nearer approach, is 
found to be high and shelving, fenced with steep rocks 
which oppose the perpetual beating of the sea. Here 
there is no anchorage ; but the west side is divided in- 
532 
_ last affords oil more abundantly than the others, as also 
GUA 
to small low and sandy bays, one of which, called Uma- 
ta, constitutes a good harbour for a few vessels, and is 
defended by a battery of twenty guns. The surface of 
the island gradually rises from the shore to nearly the 
middle. “The rocks are chiefly granitic ; and the centre 
of the pebbles, found on the t c 
loured crystals, Several vallies are between. 
the shore and the inland parts, where vegetation be- 
comes profuse, They appear to have been the bed of 
so many currents ; and their soil consists of sandy earth, 
mixed with decaying madrepores, from which the sea 
seems to have withdrawn. The interior, however, is of 
extreme fertility, abounding with all that can be desired 
for the use ae en N pense fountains spring from 
the rocks, and in their course form transparent 
shaded by trees, always preserving an agreeable Rest 
ness amidst the heats of the climate. But there are no 
rivers of importance ; the other waters being either tor- 
rents from among the hills, or inlets of the sea. 
No portion of the globe is more copiously suppli 
with vegetables than Guam; and here our ce 
circumnavigator Dampier first discovered the bread~ 
fruit, an invaluable plant, which affords subsistence to 
so many thousand islanders of the South Pacific Ocean, 
The forests are full of guavas, bananas, cocoas, oranges, 
and limes. Capers are produced in abundance from a 
shrub, indigenous to the soil, of beautiful appearance, 
flourishing throughout the year, and exhaling a delight- 
ful odour. From hence it has been transplanted to the 
Philippine islands. Two ya” of banana are 
uliar to Guam; one of dwarfish size, only three fee 
in height, but producing a fruit so much superior to all 
the rest, that its cultivation has been recommended in 
the European tropical colonies ; the other is the wild 
banana, a large tree, the fruit of which is not eatable. 
Of the cocoa tree there are three kinds: jirst, the com- 
mon species, disseminated throughout India, bearing a 
nut, which is a great article of subsistence ; secondly, a 
middle-sized tree, which is lower, the nut having a ten- 
der shell and a kernel tasting like an artichoke bot- 
tom; thirdly, the black cocoa tree, rising at most to 
eight or ten feet in height, with a nut perfectly round, 
about three inches in diameter, and very delicate. This 
coir for cordage, and the leaves of all the three are 
equally suitable for thatching huts, and making mats. 
Fish is plentiful on the shores of the island, though 
frequently of a poisonous quality, originating, it has 
been conjectured, either from their feeding on the poly~ 
pi of madrepores and coral, or other marine uous als, 
It is affirmed, that the very taste of the coral is impart- 
edtothem. ‘Turtle are large and numerous; besides 
which the streams of Guam afford abundance of aqua~ 
tic tribes peculiar to, themselves. But the-facility with 
which subsistence of a different description is obtained, 
renders that which may be derived from. the waters 
joer of secondary consideration, and it is little sought. 
er, 
It has never-been explained, what are the birds and 
quadrupeds which are indigenous to the island. A few 
cattle, that were carried thither long ago, have multi- 
plied exceedingly, and run wild m. the uninhabited 
districts, They are large, and well fed, and exhibit. . 
one remarkable feature common to those resuming their 
original state, in almost all being white, with black 
ears. . It. is known, that in Great Britain the few which 
remain unmixed from distant ages, and have preserved 
their pristine ferocity, retain along with it the same 
peculiarity, which is of much interest to the zoologist. 
Some years ago, the Spaniards transported a large spes- 
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