CONTENTS. 



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Cuba compared with the Antilles — St. Domingo — Brazil — Effect 

 of political disasters on prices — Relative position of Cuba — 

 Classes of sugar — Numerical elements of sugar planting — Value 

 of land — Number of hands to a plantation, and their food — Machi- 

 nery — Cost, product, and expense of a sugar plantation in 1825 

 — [Note — In 1855 — Compared — Causes of increased product.] — 

 Mean yield of land in sugar-cane, maple, and beet — Proportions of 

 crystallizable sugar — Different results in manipulations of cane- 

 juice— Where improvements must be sought — Yield of cane in 

 new and old lands — Compared with wheat — Yield in Bengal — 

 Disproportion of results in agriculture in Cuba and France — First 

 beet-root sugar in Havana — Fears entertained — Changes in sugar 

 culture — Increase — First cane planted in America — Several classes 

 — Supposition of sugar-makers — Otaheitan cane has not degenerated 

 — WaDt of fuel — Application of bagass — Wood and bagass com- 

 pared — Experiments and inventions — Suggested by the author's 

 residence at salt-works — Error in Europe relative to the effect of 

 cessation of slave-trade — Number of slaves in sugar culture— In 

 towns — Capture of Havana by the English, and its good effects — 

 Causes of prosperity — Evils of government embarrass it. . . . 250 



CHAPTER IX. 



AGRICULTURE. 



Increase of tithes, an evidence of prosperity — Table of agricultura 

 wealth — Hatos and Potreros (Note) — Pecuniary relations of plant 

 ers and merchants — Rate of interest — Slave-trade — Coffee planting 

 — Product — Yield per hand compared with sugar — [Note.- 

 Decline of coffee planting — Causes.] — Tobacco planting — Former 

 monopoly — Product — Decline — Factoria — Prices — Quantity put 

 chased, and where sold — Expenses of Factoria — State of tobacev 

 planting, in 1820-5 — [Note. — Obstacles to tobacco planting — 

 Future prospects — Present product — Prices—Error of Baron Hum- 

 boldt — Probable causes of superiority of the tobacco from the 



