240 



and Germany According to numerous in- 

 formations, which I collected on the spot, these 

 estimations are still somewhat too low. The 

 books of the custom-house of La Guayra alone 

 give, on a mean, in time of peace an exporta- 

 tion of eighty thousand or a hundred thousand 

 fanegas a year. We may safely augment this 

 sum a fourth or fifth, on account of the illicit 



* According to the registers of the ports of Spain, the im- 

 portation of cacao from Caraccas into the peninsula was 



in 1789 78,406/awegaa 88lbs. 



1790 74,089 3 



1791 71,500 43 , * 



1792 87,650 34 



1793 76,983 4 



Annual average 77,719 fanegas. 



Of these 77,719 fanegas, 60,202 were consumed in the 

 provinces of Spain not privileged (provincias contribuyentes) 

 and 5564 in the privileged provinces (provincias exemptasj? 

 as Navarre, Biscay, &c. The exportation from Spain was 



in 1789 IS, IIS fanegas 98lbs. 



1790 6,421 80 



1791 — 21,446 17 



1792 17,452 48 



1793 728 23 



Annual average 11, 953 /awe-guy. 



As in the complicated system of the Spanish custom- 

 houses the cacao of Caraccas is subject to a very different 

 duty, according as it is consumed in the peninsula, or 

 exported out of the kingdom (in the first case, fifty -two and 

 a half per cent, and in the second twenty-nine and a half ), a 

 great quantity of cacao is reimported into Spain. 



