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arrobas, 3000 or 4000, making 2660 or 3340 kilogrammes 
of sugai- {bianco and quebrado) per hectare. In fixing on 
1500 arrohaa, and estimating the case of sugar at 24 piastres, 
according to the price of the Havannah, we find that the 
hectare produces the value of 870 franca in sugar; and that 
of 288 Iruiicd in wheat, in the supposition of an octuple 
harvest, and the price of 100 kilogrammes ot wheat being 
18 francs. 1 have observed elsewhere, that m this com- 
parison of the two branches of cultivation, it must not be for- 
gotten that the cultivation of sugar requires great capital ; 
for instance, at present 400,000 piastres for aii annual produc- 
tion of 32,000 arrobas, or 368,000 kilogrammes, if this 
quantity be made in one single settlement. At Bengiil, in 
Watered lands, an acre (4014 square metres) renders 2300 
kilogrammes of coarse sugar, making 5,700 kilogrammes 
per hectare. If this fertility is common in lands of great 
extent, we must not be surprised at the low price of sugar 
in the East Indies. The produce of a hectare is double 
that of the best soil in the "West Indies, audthe price of 
a free Indian day-labourer, is not one-third the price of the 
day-labour of a negro slave in the island of Cuba. 
In Jamaica, in 1825, a plantation of five hundred acres 
(or fifteen and a half caballerias), of which two hundred 
acres are cultivated in sugar-cane, yields, by the labour of 
two hundred slaves, one hundred oxen, and fifty mules, 
2800 ewt., or 142,200 kilogrammes of sugar, and is com- 
puted to be worth, with its) slaves, 43,000f. sterling. Ac- 
cording to tins estimate of Mr. Stewart, one hectare would 
yield 17 60 kilogrammes of coarse sugar ; for such is the 
quality of the sugar furnished for commerce at Jamaica^ 
l^eckoiiing in a great sugar-fabric of tbe Havannah 
caballerias or 325 hectares for a produce of from 32,000 to 
40,000 cases, we find 1130 or 1420 kilogrammes of refined 
sugar {bianco and quebrado'} per hectare. This result 
agrees sufficiently with that of J amaiea, it we consider the 
loss sustained in the weight of sugar by refining, in con- 
verting the coarse sugar into azitcar bianco y quebrado) or 
refined sugar. At Sail Domingo, a square (3403 square 
toises = l'29 hectare) is estimated at forty, and sometimes 
at sixty quintals : if we fix on 5000 pounds, we still find 
lOOO kilogrammes of coarse sugar per hectare. Supposing, 
