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and common soft, or Seville, 18f cents a pound, in 

 Havana. H 



In good years, when the crop (the product of 

 advances made by the " Factoria " to poor cultiva- 

 tors), amounted to 350,000 arrobes of leaf, 128,000 

 arrobes were manufactured for Spain, 80,000 for 

 Havana, 9,200 for Peru, 6,000 for Buenos Ayres, 

 2,240 for Mexico, and 1,100 for Caraccas and Cam- 

 peachy. 1 In order to make up the amount of 315,000 

 arrobes (for the crop loses ten per cent, of its 

 weight, in loss and damage in the transportation and 

 manufacture), we must suppose that 80,000 arrobes 

 were consumed in the interior of the island, that is, 

 in the country, where the royal monopoly did not 

 extend. 



The maintenance of 120 slaves, and the expenses 

 of manufacture, did not exceed $12,000 yearly ; but 

 the salaries of the officers of the " Factoria" amounted 

 to $541,000. The value of the 128,000 arrobes of 

 tobacco sent to Spain, in the abundant years, either 

 in segars, leaf, or snuff, at the customary prices 

 there, exceeded the sum of five millions of dollars. 



1 Situation actual de la Real Factoria de tabacos de la Hahana, 

 en Abril, 1804. — (Official MSS.). In Seville there were sometimes 

 in store ten or twelve million pounds of tobacco, and the revenue 

 from the tobacco monopoly, in Spain, amounted, in good years, to 

 six millions of dollars. — H. 



