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LABOR NOT CAPITAL. 



Texas, with cultivation, should import all its smoked and 

 salt beef, all its salt pork, hams and tongues, most of its 

 butter, lard, cheese, candles, and soap ; and yet incredible 

 as it may appear, such has been the custom in Jamaica for 

 years, as the following table which I found in De Cordova's 

 Mercantile Intelligencer, a very useful paper published 

 periodically at Kingston, will demonstrate : 



Imports into the Island of Jamaica, (Kingston and the 

 Outports) up to the 10th of October in the years 1848 

 and 1849. 



Flour, bbls 



Meal, ditto 



Bread, cwts 



Rice, lbs 



Corn, bushels 



Peas and Beans, bushels 



Barley, Oats, and Rye, ditto i 



Wheat, ditto 



Beef, bbls 



Pork, do 



Wet Tongues, do 



Dry Tongues ? t 

 Beef and Hams 5 C 



Butter, firkins 



Lard, do 



Herrings, boxes 



Mackerel, do 



Alewives, do 



Herrings, do 



Codfish, quintals 



Cheese, cwts 



Refined Sugar, lbs » 



Candles, Sperm, boxes 



do Composition, boxes 



do Tallow, do 



Soap do 



Tobacco, manufactured, lbs 



do leaf do, 



1349. 



1848 



70,634 



82,599 



24,716 



21,949 



6,386 



11,280 



4,587,155 



2,944,314 



87,003 



123133 



11,466 



13,759 



1,117 



745 



10,909 



7,867 



1,741 



2,181 



17,281 



21,176 



417 



414 



5,264 



2,807 



14,032 



11,677 



7,737 



7,369 



4,590 



1,159 



34,650 



30,560 



4,220 



3,250 



15,230 



15,721 



91,439 



112,455 



1,406 



1,866 



57,404 



43,796 



1,478 



677 



1,168 



1,172 



11,486 



9,250 



52,706 



42,637 



253,610 



224,497 



94,751 



309,879 



