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might be richer, did they not follow the example of the 

 ■woman in the fable with her golden eggs. 



In the fir ft place, in Surinam are computed to be about 

 fix or eight hundred plantations, producing fugar, coffee, 

 cacao, and cotton, befides fome indigo, and valuable tim- 

 bers, 8cC.-— The exportation of which four firft articles 

 only, and their value, may be feen at one view in the 

 following table for four fucceflive years r 



CHAP. 

 XXIV. 



V— — V 



The 



Barrels of 



lbs. of 



lbs. of 



lbs. of 



Years, 



SUGAR. 



COFFEE. 



CACAO. 



COTTON. 



1771 



19,494 



11,135,132 



416,821 



203,945 



1772 



19,260 



12,267,134 



354.935 



9^*035 



1773 



15^741 



15,427,298 



332,229 



i35>047 



1774 



15,111 



1 1,016,518 



506,610 



105,126 



Total - 



69,606 



49,846,082 



1,610,595 



534,153 



6^,606 barrels of fugar, at 60 florins barrel, 

 make - . _ - 



49,846,082 lbs. of coffee, at 8 f per lb. make - 

 1,610,595 lbs. of cacao, at 6\d.per lb. make - 

 534,153 lbs. of cotton, at "id. per lb. make - 



Sum total I 



Which makes in one year exaftly ^ 



But this average produce was fhipped off for 

 the town of Amfterdam only. 



/• 4,176,3^0 



£1,184,584 17 — 



523,443 7 8 

 212,661 4 — 



/. 26,097,049 8 8 



/. 6,524,262 7 2 



Carried forward - - ]/, 6,524,262 7 2 



If 



