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annis; the value of which, according to the ave¬ 
rage prices at the London market for ten years 
previous to 1791, may be reckoned as follows: 
l 
200 Hogsheads of sugar, at £.15 ster¬ 
ling per hogshead - 3,000. 
130 Puncheons of rum, £,. 10 sterling 
per puncheon 1,300 
Gross returns £,. 4,300 
But the reader is not to imagine that all this, 
or even the sugar alone, is so much clear profit. 
The annual disbursements are first to be deducted, 
and very heavy they are -, nor is any opinion more 
erroneous than that which supposes they are provi¬ 
ded for by the rum. If such indeed were the fact, 
the capital would yield precisely an annual interest 
of ten per cent, but a reference to the several 
items which I have particularized in a note,* will 
* ANNUAL SUPPLIES FROM GREAT BRITAIN AND 
IRELAND. 
ISt. NEGRO CLOTHING; viz. 
*> 5 °° Yards of Osnahurg cloth or German linen. 
650 Yards of blue baize, or pennistones, for a warm frock for 
each negro. 
350 Yards of striped linseys for the women. 
250 Yards of coarse check forshiits for the boilers, tradesmen, 
domestics, and children. 
3 Dozen of coarse blankets for lying-in women, and sick 
negioes. 
t8 Dozen of coarse hats. 
