DIMINUTION OF EXPORTS. 



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laborers, and yielded over 15,000 hogsheads of sugar, and 

 over 6,000 puncheons of rum. 



During the same period, over 500 coffee plantations 

 have been abandoned, and their works broken up. This 

 threw out of cultivation over 200,000 acres more of land, 

 which, in 1832, required the labor of over 30,000 men. 



From an official return of the exports from the island 

 now lying before me, I am enabled to compare the surplus 

 production of its great staples in the three years previous 

 to the Emancipation Act, with the exports for the three 

 years preceding the month of October, 1848. They con- 

 trast as follows : — 



1 Sugar 



Year when exported. | lihds. 



Rurn 

 puns. 



Mo. 



cks. 



Ginger, 

 pounds. 



Pimento 

 pounds. 



Coffee 

 pounds. 





35,025 

 36,411 

 33,615 



154 

 230 

 799 



1.748,800 

 1,614,640 



2,355,560 



5,560,620 

 3.172.320 

 4,024,800 



22,256,950 

 14,055,350 

 19,815,010 



293,772 



105,121 



1,183 



5,719;000 



12,757,740 



56,126,310 



1846 86,223 



1847 48,554 



14,395 

 18,077 

 20,194 



76 



22 

 2 



1,462,600 

 1,324,480 

 320,340 



2,997,060 

 2,800,140 

 5,231,908 



6,047,150 

 6,421,122 

 5,684,941 



126 ; 989 



52,666 



100 



3,106,820 



11,029,108 



18,153,213 



Aggregate diminution. . . .166,783 | 52,455 | 1,083 | 2.802,180 | 1,628,532 | 38,973,097 



By this contrast it appears that during the last three 

 years the island has exported less than half the sugar, rum, 

 or ginger ; less than one-third the coffee ; less than one- 

 tenth the molasses ; and nearly two millions of pounds less 

 of pimento, than during the three years which preceded 

 the Emancipation Act. 



