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of Havana, in 1794, at 18,600 boxes, and 45,600 

 that of all the island. In view of the fact that 

 the population of the island at that time was 

 about 362,000, of which, at most, only 230,000 

 were free, and that it is now 715,000, of w r hich 

 455,000 are free, we must estimate a total consump- 

 tion in 1825, of 88,000 boxes. But supposing it to be 

 60,000 boxes, we have a total product of at least 

 440,000 boxes from the sugar plantations. 



That we may more exactly comprehend the 

 agricultural wealth of Cuba, let us compare the pro- 

 duction of that island in moderately productive years, 

 with that of the other Antilles. 1 



SLAVE POPULATION AND EXPORT OF SUGAR IN" 1823. 



1 We have here reduced Baron Humboldt's extended remarks to 

 the tabular form, for greater conciseness. The export of sugar from 

 Cuba, in 1851, had increased to six millions hundred weight, while 

 that of all the English West Indies had fallen to about 2,750,000 

 hundred weight. 



Slaves. 



Export. 

 1,520,000 cwt. 



Cuba, 260,000 



Jamaica, 342,382 



Barbadoes, Granada, and St. Vincent, . . 128,000 



Trinidad, .„ 23,500 



All the English Antilles, 626,800 



French Antilles, 178,000 



Dutch, Danish, and Swedish Antilles, . . . 61,300 



1,417,488 

 794,567 

 189,891 



3,005,366 

 794,760 

 354,386 



