chap, ii.] WEST INDIES. 71 
rum ; 1,827,166lbs. of coffee; 457,719 lbs. of ca¬ 
cao; 91,943 lbs. of cotton; 27,638 lbs. of indigo, 
and some smaller articles ; the whole of which, 
on a moderate computation, could not be worth less 
at the ports of shipping, than ,£.600,000 sterling, 
excluding freight, duties, insurance and other char- 
o-es. It deserves to be remembered too, that the 
sugar was the produce of 106 plantations only, and 
that they were worked by 18,293 negroes, which 
was therefore rather more than one hogshead of 
muscovado sugar, of 16 cwt. from the labour of 
each negro, old and young, employed in the cul¬ 
tivation of that commodity; a prodigious return, 
equalled, I believe, by no other British island in 
the West Indies, St. Christopher’s excepted.- 
The exports of 1787 will be given hereafter : they 
will be found, except in one or two articles, to fall 
greatly short of those of 1776 ; a circumstance for 
which I know not wholly how to account.* 
This island is divided into six parishes, St. 
George, St. David, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, St. 
Mark, and St. John; and its chief dependency 
* This circumstance is the more surprising as the sugar plantations 
in Grenada, for seme years previous to the hurricane in 1780, suffeied 
greatly by the ravages of the sugar, or carnivorous ant. Of this 
wondeifui insect a curious account was transmitted to the Royal Soci¬ 
ety of London, an abridgment of which the reader will find in an Ap¬ 
pendix to this chapter. I conceive however (notwithstanding what is 
asserted to the contrary in that account) that this species of ant, is 
commoti to all the islands in the Wdst Indies, and has been known 
in them in a greater or less degree, from the earliest times. It is the 
