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cacao, 4 cwt. of ginger, 26,380 gallons of melasses, 
200 lbs. of piemento, 575 cwt. of coffee, 1,750 lbs. 
of cotton wool, and some small articles, fruit, &c. 
of little account; the value of the whole, agreeably 
to the current prices in London, was ,£.100,506. 
17 .?. 10 d. sterling, and the shipping to which it gave 
employment was nominally 17,873 tons, navigated 
by 1,397 seamen. As this however includes re¬ 
peated voyages, the quantity of tonnage and the 
number of men must be reduced one-half. 
To the United States of America the same year 
the exports in British shipping were these: 19,921 
cwt. of sugar, 1,620,205 gallons of rum, 124i.cwt. 
of cacao, 339 cwt. of ginger, 4,200 gallons of me¬ 
lasses, 6,450 lbs. of piemento, 3,246 lbs. of coffee, 
3,000 lbs. of cotton wool, 291 hides, and 737 barrels 
of fruit. 
The value in sterling money, according to the 
prices current in London, was £. 196,460. 8.?. as 
hath been stated in the former chapter.* The a- 
mount of the freight on these exports, and also on 
American productions supplied the West Indies, is 
the monopoly which Great Britain has exacted by 
her late regulations. It cannot therefore be said, 
that if she has lost much, she has gained nothing; 
but estimating her profit at the utmost, to what 
does it amount, compared with the cost of the pur- 
* Number of vessels (including repeated voyages) 386, tonnage 
43,380, men 2,854- 
