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XXIV. 



Brought forward 



/. 1,270,000 



Still let me not forget what is yearly paid for 

 what is called the fupport of the common or grafs 

 fields, viz. 



For a houfe, according to its fize. 



For a coach - - - - 20 



For a whifliey - - - 10 — — 



For a faddle-horfe - - - - i© — — 



Which add to the above impofitions again 



I2jOOO — — -r 



And thefc, if fummed together, make a yearly 

 revenue of no lefs than - - - 



/. 1,282,000 — — 



Having now clearly demonftrated, partly by the aflift- 

 ance of Dr. Fermyn's tableau de la Colonie de Surinam^ 

 and partly by my own experience, that the intrinfic value 

 of this fettlement is worth yearly above one million of 

 fterling money, which, by proper management, might be 

 ftill increafed ; alfo that the greater part of it goes to the 

 republic, while the people are thus burthened on their 

 eflates by almoft infupportable taxation, which induces 

 many to be rogues, who would perhaps otherwife be ho- 

 neft ; I fliall, by way of appendix, give fome Ihort ac- 

 count of the trade carried on in this colony by the North 

 Americans : — Thefe people arrive with fmall brigs, 

 floops, and fchooners from Virginia, Rhode Ifland, New 

 York, Boiion, Jamaica, Grenada, Antigua, Barbadoes, &c. 

 from which places they export flour, beef, pork, her- 

 rings, fait, mackarel, and leaf-tobacco for the negroes;, 

 alfo fir-boards, Englifh rum, and other fpirits ; loaf-fu- 



gar. 



