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tlio produce of 3500 plants. The province of the Havannah 

 reckoned: 



In 1800 60 cafe tales. 

 In 1817 779 



The coffee tree being a shrub that yields a good harvest 

 only in the fourth year, the exportation of coffee from the 

 roi-t of the Havannah was, in 1804, only 50,000 arrobas 

 It rose 



In 1809 to .... 320,000 arrobas. 

 In 1815 .... 918,263 



In 1815, when the price of coffee was fifteen piastres the 

 quintal, the value of the exportation from the Havannah 

 exceeded the sum of 3,443,000 piastres. In 1823, the 

 exportation from the port of Matanzas was 84,440 arrobas ; 

 BO that it seems not doubtful, that in years of medium fer- 

 tility, the total exportation of the island, lawful and con- 

 traband, is more than fourteen millions of kilogrammes. 



From this calculation it results, that the exportation of 

 coffee from the island of Cuba is greater than that from 

 Java, estimated by Mr. Crawfurd, in 1820, at 190,000 

 piculs, llf millions of kilogrammes. It likewise exceeds 

 the exportation from Jamaica, which amounted, in 1823, 

 according to the registers of the custom-house, only to 

 169,734 cwt., or 8,622,478 kilogrammes. In the same year, 

 Great Britain received, from all the English islands, 194,820 

 cwt., or 9,896,856 kilogrammes ; which proves that Jamaica 

 only produced six-sevenths. Guadaloupe sent, in 1810, to 

 the mother country, 1,017,190 kilogrammes; Martinico, 

 671,336 kilogrammes. At Hayti, where the production of 

 coffee before the French revolution was 37,240,000 kilo- 

 grammes, Port-au-Prince exported, in 1824, only 91,544,000 

 kilogrammes. It appears that the total exportation of 

 coffee from the archipelago of the West Indies by lawful 

 means only, now amounts to more than thirty-eight millions 

 of kilogrammes; nearly five times the consumption of 

 France, which, from 1820 to 1823, was, on the yearly- 

 average, 8,198,000 kilogrammes. The consumption of Great 

 Britain is yet* only 3J millions of kilogrammes. 



* Before the year 1807, when the tax on coffee was reduced, the con. 

 nmption of Great Britain wu not 8000 cwt. (lest than i million of 

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