528 
printed.in 1802, enters into a calculation, 
the refult of which is, that the labour of 
a Negro at St. Domingo, gives an annual 
produce of 398 livres, but that of a Negro 
at Jamaica no more than 192. 
Tt follows alfo from feveral data and 
computations in his performance, that the 
mean produce of a carreau of fugar is 
3489 pounds weight of raw fugar. 
The mean produce of acarreau, plant- 
ed with coffee, at St. Domingo, is, ac- 
cording to the fame, 2 500 pounds weight. 
His calculation of the revenue’ arifing 
from a fugar-plantation at St. Domingo, of 
zoo carreaux of land, is as follows; 
One hundred carreaux of land make 
340,500 toifes, laid out in the following 
manner : 
Carreaux 
In Savannas, for buildings, paf- 
ture, and cattle - - 104 
In provifion:grounds for Ne- 
groes . : - 4 
In plantations of bananas, &c. 93 
In guinea-grafs for cattie 3¢ 
Tn (ugar- plantations . 67 
In roads and partitions, confift- 
ing partly of land planted with 
provifions = - - 58 
Total of the land thus laid out 100 
This quantity of land, which is fup- 
pofed to be of the fecond rate, cofts, at St. 
Domingo, 3000 livres currency the car- 
reau 3; or; 2000 French livres, at the ex- 
change of thirty-three and a half per cent. 
amounting altogether to 200,000 French 
livres. 
Value of buildings and furni- Livres. 
ture upon fuch a plantation 100,000 
Sixteen oxen, at 250 livres a 
head - - ~ 4,000 
One hundred and five mules, 
at 480 livres a head - 50,400 
‘Fwo hundred Negroes, at 
2000 livres a head - 400,000 
Working-tools, harnefs, &c, 6,006 
Total value 560,400 
‘Fhe produce of fuch a plantation is of 
450,000 pounds weight of fugar, which, 
at thirty livres the hundred, make 135,000 
livres; 450,000 weight of molafles, at 
twelve livres the hundred, make 18,000 
livres ; total of the produce 153,000 li- 
wres. 
According to a fimilar ftatement of the 
expences of a plantation at Jamaica, the 
fame author obferves, that, in this latter 
ifiand, a plantation of 6009 thoufand 
Preduée and Trade of St. Domingo. 
[July 1, 
toifes of land, and cultivated by 250 Ne- 
groes, produces only 240,000 weight of 
tugar, value 72,000 livres ; while, at St. 
Domingo, a plantation of 340,500 toifes 
of land, cultivated by 200 Negroes, pro- - 
duces 450,000 weight of fugar, which, 
fold at the fame price as the Jamaica fu- 
gars, are worth 153,000 livres. 
Thus, it appears, that the grofs pro- - 
duce of a piantation of a hundred car- 
reaux of land at St. Domingo, is 153,000 
livres. From this muft be deducted, 
1. the maintenance of the Negroes, which 
amounts to little, as it is cuitomary to 
allot to each of them a portion of land to 
cultivate ; 2. the falaries of the infpectors 
of the Negroes; 3. taxes 3 4. the re- 
placing of the lofs of Negrves and cattle 
through mortality, keeping of the build- 
ings in repair, &e. Calculating thefe ex- 
pences at 54,754 livres annually, and de- 
dudting them from 153,000 livres, there 
remain 96,246 livres, which conftitute an 
intereft of twelve and two-thirds per cent. 
on the capital, and 480 livres a head for 
Negroes. 
It is materially conducive to the know- 
ledge of the fubjeét of which we are treat- 
ing, to be acquainted with the pecumiary 
amount of the productions of this colony. 
By the light which it throws on the ftate 
of its trade, the importance of fuch a co- 
lony to the power that poflefles it is com+ 
pletely apparent. 
Here follows, therefore, an eftimate for 
the year 1788, of the proportional value 
of St. Domingo, in the commeree carried 
on by France: 
Statement of the Sales of the Productions of 
St. Domingo, for the Year 1738. 
Sugar, celayed and raw, 163;405,500 
pounds weight, fold in France for nine 
fous eight deniers a pound-—78,979,000 
livres. 
Coffee 68,151,000 pounds weight of, 
at nine fous, nine deniers a pound— 
33,230,000 livres. 
Cotton 6,239,000 pounds weight, at 
200 livres a hundred—12,572,000 livres. 
Indigo 930,000 pounds weight, at eight 
livres fourteen fous the pound, 3,091,000 
livres. 
Cacao, 10,000 pounds weight, at fifs 
teen fous the pound, 112,0d0 livres. 
Molaffes, 34,453,000. pounds weight, 
at fix livres the hundred, 2,067,000 livress 
Caret, 5500 pounds weight, at twelve 
livres the pound, 66,000 livres. 
Leathers, 13,000 pounds weight, at 
nineteen livres two fous the piece, 180,000 
livres. “A 
Wood 
