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meres. Cotton goods of almost every description, especially if \ovt 

 priced, meet with ready sale. Hats of all sorts, (particularly dress- 

 hats,) and boots and shoes of English manufacture, have of late 

 been sold in great quantities; the leather is much preferable to that 

 made in Brazil. Common and finer earthenware, and glass ; some 

 sorts of fine and coarse hard-ware ; som^plated goods, as candles 

 now begin to be used instead of lamps. Bottled porter, Cheshire 

 cheese, butter, cheap furniture, tin-plate, brass, lead in various 

 shapes, shot of all sizes, gunpowder, drugs, some philosophical in- 

 struments, books, low-priced paper, watches, telescopes, salt provi- 

 sions, as hams, tongues, and barrelled pork, low-priced sadlery, and, 

 most of all, India and other goods fit for the African coast. Marble 

 mortars, mirrors, and many fancy articles of less note. Silk and cot- 

 ton hosiery, fashionable dresses for ladies, particularlj'^ fine stockings 

 and shoes. 



It is to be observed that the mother-country still continues to send 

 oil, wine, brandy, linens, cottons, some silks, and a variety of articles 

 of inferior consequence. India goods, consisting chiefly of cottons, 

 are sent from the Malabar coast, and China goods are in great plenty. 

 From North America are imported flour, salt provisions, turpentine, 

 tar, staves, household furniture, &c. 



. Naval stores, clothing for sailors, arms, &c. may be said to be 

 generally in demand. 



The staple articles of trade from Brazil and the river Plate which are 

 most in demand in this country, when its markets are not overstocked, 

 are cotton, coffee, hides, tallow of good quahty, horns, hair, fur- 

 skins, and feathers. Sugar cannot be enumerated among them, 

 because our existing Colonial regulations prevent it from being gene- 

 rally used in this country : but Brazil is well calculated for growing 

 it, having every convenience of situation, and all the materials requi- 

 site for machinery. To the above may be added some wood ; that 

 beautiful species, called jacaranda,. here denominated rose- wood, is 

 subject to so high a duty in this country, that it cannot be generally 



