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plant requiring 4 or 5 years before it 
comes to bear; so that the supply is nei¬ 
ther suddenly increased when the demand 
increases, nor diminished when it falls off. 
St. Domingo used formerly to be one of 
the greatest sources of supply, having ex¬ 
ported, in 1786, about 35,000 tons; and 
it is supposed that, but for the negro in¬ 
surrection which broke out in 1792, the ex¬ 
ports of that year would have amounted 
to 42,000 tons. The devastation occasioned 
by this event caused, for a series of years, 
an almost totul cessation of supplies. They 
have again, however, increased, and are 
understood to amount, at present, to about 
15,000 tons a year. From Cuba, the ex¬ 
ports of coffee have, for some years, owing 
partly to an increased consumption in the 
island, and partly to the eforts of the 
planters having been more directed to the 
cultivation of sugar, been comparatively 
stationary. They may at present amount 
to about 22,000 tons, or, including Porto 
Pico, to 25,000 tons. In Java and Bra¬ 
zil, the culture of coffee has increased with 
unprecedented rapidity (see Batavia and 
Kio Janeiro); so much so, that the ex¬ 
ports from Java, which did not, a few 
years ego, exceed !8,000 tons, now amount 
to at least 05,000; while those from Bra¬ 
zil, which have increased in an equal de¬ 
gree, amount to about 80,000 tons. The 
growth of coffee in India and Cevlon has 
been very great!) increased, especially in 
