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IJJDIGO. 



Letter to 1794, VIZ. 1,141,906 Ibs., the quantity remaining 

 27 July 1796. on hand, after providing for every demand, is 

 1,782,468 lbs. 



17. From these documents it seems conclusive, 

 that the consumption of this country may be rated, 

 (allowing for the improvements that have been 

 effected in the quality of that produced in Bengal,) 

 one year with another, at one million of pounds 

 weight. 



18. That the imports for a series of years past 

 have been so ample, as not only to yield this sup- 

 ply, but to furnish a considerable surplus for 

 exportation to foreign markets. 



19. That this surplus, which in the five years 

 preceding 1789 



Average per annum 501,926 lbs. 



Became increased in the five subse- 

 quent years to 877,215 „ 



And in the two last years to 1,565,620 „ 



20. To investigate with precision the circum- 

 stances under which the rapid increase in the last 

 two years has taken place, will require more ex- 

 tensive information than we have now before us, 

 or than probably will be easily acquired. Doubt- 

 less, the suspension of the traffic that took place 

 between Bengal and the Continent, as well directly 

 as indirectly, may in some measure have contri- 

 buted thereto ; but as we are without any account 

 of the productions of St. Domingo later than 1789, 

 w e are, of course, unable to ascertain in what de- 

 gree 



