LABOR NOT CAPITAL. 



109 





1849. 



1848. 







929,520 







1,336,715 





, 503,653 



642,258 





1,862 



1,876 





818 



4,509 





, , 3,632,274 



4,544,766 







2,021,685 







1,714,215 





, . . 3,724,884 



4,687,085 





... 837,811 



1,020,181 



Hardwood and other Timbers, feet. . .. 



19,321 



8,333 



It will be perceived by this table, that the importation 

 of salt fish is very large, and yet the waters around Ja- 

 maica, abound with some of the finest fish in the world. 

 The people will send to Maine for lumber, and pay $25 a 

 thousand feet for it, rather than be at the trouble of cut- 

 ting down their own magnificent forests. There is not a 

 single saw mill upon the island. There are no manufac- 

 tories of any kind except of sugar and rum. Even 

 their brick they import. The hilly surface of the country 

 supplies an abundance of water power, over forty constant 

 rivers and over two hundred rivulets, and yet there is not 

 such a thing as a water wheel to be found in use, except 

 on the plantations and for agricultural purposes. 



So entirely, indeed, are the capital and industry of the 

 island absorbed in the culture of favorite staples on these 

 large estates, that common articles of table consumption 

 in Kingston, are higher than in any part of England or the 

 United States. I give below a list of prices paid at the 



