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trade with Trinidad, and the other West India 

 islands. It appears to me probable, that from 

 1800 to 1806, the last period of internal tran- 

 quillity in the Spanish colonies, the annual pro- 

 duce of the cacao-plantations of the Capitania 

 General of Caraccas was at least a hundred and 

 ninety-three thousand fanegas ; of which we 

 may allot to 



the province of Caraccas . . 150,000 

 ofMaracaybo . . 20,000 

 of Cumana . . . 18,000 

 of Nueva Barcelona 5,000 



The crops that are gathered twice a year, at 

 the end of June and of December, vary much ; 

 yet less than those of the olive and vine in 

 Europe. Of the hundred and ninety-three 

 thousand fanegas of cacao, which the Capitanir 

 General of Caraccas produces, a hundred and 

 forty-five thousand pass over to Europe, either 

 by the ports of the peninsula, or by contraband 

 trade. 



I think I can prove *, and these estimations 



* For the bases of these estimations, so important in all 

 the researches of political economy, see my Essai sur la Nouv. 

 Esp., vol. ii, p. 431, 435, 436, 658 ; the tables of exportation 

 from Canton in Sainte-Croix, Voyage commercial aux hides orien- 

 tals, vol. iii,p.l53, 161, 170; Colquhoun, on theWealth of the 

 British Empire, p. 331, 334 ; and this Personal Narrative* 

 vol. iv, p. 71. The English West India islands exported 

 of sugar to different parts of the world, in 1812, more than 



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