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HISTORY OF THE [book v. 
Observations concerning the cultivation of Coffee 
in St. Domingo, and its probable increase in Ja¬ 
maica, if the Slave trade shall not be abolished 
by act of Parliament. 
The French part of St. Domingo, in 1770, ex¬ 
ported only five millions of pounds of coffee, but 
in 1784, a bounty of 40 livres per ton having been 
allowed to slave vessels arriving from Africa, and 
in 1786, a further bounty of 200 livres per head 
on slaves imported, the import of negroes increa¬ 
sed annually from 12 and 15,000, to 25 and 30,000 ; 
and the effect in that colony of this augmentation 
of African labourers was a very rapid progress in 
every species of cultivation 5 but that of coffee al¬ 
most exceeds belief; for the export of this article 
in 1789 had increased to above seventy six millions 
of pounds, which, valued at the present price, 
(ninety shillings per cwt.), is equal to *£.3,420,000 
sterling! Of this enlarged export, no less than 
twenty-five millions of pounds (worth £.1,250,000 
sterling) were produced between the years 1786 
and 1789; and it was supposed that the crop of 
1792 (if the troubles had not intervened) would 
have been eighty millions, so little had the depre¬ 
ciation at market, from the additional quantity 
brought to sale, affected the cultivation. It seems 
