WEST INDIES, 
©HAP. IV.] 
95 
ton-lands, on an average, did not exceed one hun- 
•dred and twelve pounds per acre; viz. 
In 1785 - 2,476b 
1786 - * - 3,050 V 
1787 - - - 4,500 j 
acres 
Of”'} Cwt. of 
produced j Cotton. 
The price in the Bahamas and Jamaica was the 
same, viz. Is. 2d. sterling per pound.—Allowing 
therefore the average produce per acre to be one 
hundred weight, the returns are these; viz. 
Sterling. 
25 cwt. at Is. 3d. sterling per pound-^£.175 
Deduct incidental expenses, as ma-b 
terials for bagging, colonial taxes, V 25 
&c.* - -.j- 
Remains in sterling money - - - - c £. 150 
Which gives an interest of upwards of fourteen 
per cent, on the capital; arising too from the low¬ 
est-priced cotton. If the same calculation be ap¬ 
plied to cotton-wool, of two shillings per jxmnd 
value, (the present price of the cotton-wool of St. 
Domingo), the profit on the capital is twenty-four 
per cent. 
* The maintenance, &c, of the negroes, after the first year, is not 
charged, because it is conceived, that the land in cotton not being 
sufficient to find them in full employment, they may laise corn and 
other articles on the remaining twenty-five acies, more than sufficient 
to pay for their cloathing and support. It is usual even to raise corn, 
potatoes, &c. between the.ranks of the cotton bushes. 
