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tlie produce of 3500 plants. The province of the Havannah 
reckoned : 
In 1800 ..... 60 cafetales. 
In 1817 
The coffee tree being a shrub that yields a good harvest 
only in the fourth year, the exportation of coffee from the 
port of the Havannah was, in 1804, only 50,000 arrobas 
It rose 
In 1809 to ... . 320,000 arrobas. 
In 1815 .... 918.263 
In 1815, when the price of coffee was fifteen piastres the 
quintal, the value of the exportation from the Havannah 
oxceeded the sum of 3,443,000 piastres. In 1823, the 
exportation from the port of Matanzas was 84,440 arrobas ; 
so that it seems not doubtful, that in years of medium fer- 
tility, the total exportation of the island, lawful and con- 
traband, is more than fourteen millions of kilogrammes. 
Prom this calculation it results, that the exportation of 
coffee from the island of Cuba is greater thiin that from 
Java, estimated by Mr. Crawfurd, in 1820, at 190,000 
ficuls, ll-j[^ millions of kilogrammes. It likewise exceeds 
the exportation from Jamaica, which amounted, in 1823, 
according to tho registers of the custom-house, only to 
169,734 cwt., or 8,622,478 kilogrammes. In the same year, 
Creat Britain received, from all the English islands, 194,820 
cwt., or 9,896,856 kilogrammes; which proves that Jamaica 
only produced six-sevenths. Guadaloupc sent, in 1810, to 
the mother country^ 1,017,190 kilogrammes; Martinico, 
671,336 kilogrammes. At Hayti, where the production of 
coffee before the Prench revolution was 37,240,000 kilo- 
grammes, Port-au-Prince exported, in 1824, only 91,544,000 
kilogrammes. It appears that the total exportation of 
coffee from the archipel.ago of the West Indies by lawful 
uieans only, now amounts to more than thirty-eight millions 
cl kilogrammes ; nearly five times the consumption of 
Prance, w'hich, from 1820 to 1823, was, on the yearly 
average, 8,198,000 kilogrammes. The consumption of Great 
liritaiu is yet * only 3 ^ mdlions of kilogrammes. 
* Before the year 1807, when the tax on coffee was reduced, the con. 
sumption of Great Britain was not 8000 cwt. (less than I million of 
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