280 



humboldt's cuba. 



The agricultural wealth of the department of 

 Havana, in 1817 was : 



Sugar plantations, 625 Tobacco plantations, 1,601 



Coffee plantations, 779 Churches, 224 



Potreros, 1,197 Houses, 42,268 



haciendas, 930 



[Note. — -That of the three departments is stated 

 as follows, in the census of 1846 : 



Western, . 

 Eastern, . 



Sugar 

 Plantations. 



735 



404 



303 



Coffee 

 Plantations. 



1,012 

 78 

 580 



Potroros. 



1,548 

 4,305 

 2,838 



Haciendas. 

 193 

 576 

 470 



Tobacco 

 Plantations. 



3,990 

 967 

 4,145 



Churches. 

 229 

 65 

 36 



Houses. 

 56,104 

 31,079 

 25,779 





, . . . 1,442 



1,670 



8,691 



1,239 



9,102 



330 



112,962 



To these, we may add the following number of 

 farms, called Sitios de labor: In the Western, 12,286; 

 Central, 6,678 ; Eastern, 6,328.] 



The extraordinary expenditures required by the 

 large sugar plantations, and the frequent domestic 



1 The Hatos or Haciendas de Cria, and the Potreros, are cattle 

 farms. The first are often two or three leagues in diameter, without 

 fences, where half-wild cattle are pastured. Two or three horsemen 

 only are necessary on them, who traverse the country looking after 

 the cows, and collecting and marking the calves. The Potreros are 

 smaller cattle farms, fenced, and frequently having some land 

 planted in maize, yuca, and plantain. Cattle are there fattened, and 

 sheep, swine, and goats reared.*-H. 



