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lions *. The cultivation of the coffee-tree, less 

 fatiguing, and less expensive, than that of the 

 sugar-cane, has not suffered so much from the 

 domination of the blacks. The deficiency of 

 forty millions of pounds is at present replaced 

 by 



26,500,000 pounds produce of Jamaica. 



20,000,000 produce of Cuba. 



11,400,000 produce of Surinam, Deme- 



rara, Berbice, and Curasoa, 



5,000,000 — produce of Venezuela, 



13,000,000 produce of Java f. 



75,900,000 pounds. 



The total exportation of coffee from America to 

 Europe now exceeds one hundred and six 

 millions of pounds (French poids de marc). If 

 we add to this quantity four or five millions 



* The exportation from St. Domingo to the English ports 

 alone amounted from 1809 to 1811, one year with another, to 

 19,364,066 English pounds of coffee. Colquhoun, p. 331 and 

 378. Produce of the Caribbee islands fourteen millions of 

 pounds. Produce of Cuba, in 1809 alone, 80,000 quintals. 



+ More than 100,000 pikuls, at 133 pounds each. Mr. 

 von Hogendorp thinks, that the island of Java, in it's present 

 state of civilization, but by means not very philanthropic, 

 could furnish Europe with fifty millions of pounds of coffee. 

 Raffle's Hist, of Java, vol. i, p. 129 and 213. 



