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between #aves, bergan is gth of fury, 1787, and the 5th of Prines than entrent at the London Market.

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But it must be noted, that a confiderable part of the cotton, indigo, tobacco, mahogany, dye-woods, and mifcellaneous articles, included in the preceding account, is the produce of the foreign Weft-Indies imported into Jamaica, partly under the free-port law; and partly in fmall British veffels employed in a contraband traffic with the Spanish American territories, payment of which is made chiefly in British manufactures and negroes; and confiderable quantities of bullion, obtained by the fame means, are annually remitted to Great-Britain of which no precife accounts can be procured.

The General Account of IMPORTS into Jamaica will stand nearly as follows, viz.

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-758,932 5 4

Infpector Gene- Foreign mer

From Ireland, allowing a moiety of the whole.
import to the British Weft-Indies, confifting
of manufactures and falted provisions to the
amount of 350,0col.

From Africa, five thousand three hundred and
forty-five negroes,* at 401. fterling each-
(this is wholly a British trade, carried on in
fhips from England)
From the British Colonies in America, including
about twenty thoufand quintals of falted cod
from Newfoundland

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From the United States, Indian corn, wheat, flour, rice, lumber, ftaves, &c. imported in British fhips

From Madeira and Teneriffe, in fhips trading circuitcufly from Great-Britain, five hundred pipes of wine, exclufive of wines for re-exportation, at 30l. fterling the pipe

175,000 0 0

213,800 0 0

30,000 o O

90,000 0 O

15,000 0 O

1,282,732 5 4

* Being an average of the whole number imported and retained in the island for ten years, 1778 to 1787, as returned by the Inspector-General.

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Brought over 1,282,732 5 4

From the foreign Weft-Indies, under the freeport law, &c. calculated on an average of three years*

150,000 0 0

£.1,432,732 5 4

From returns of the Inspector-General. The following are the particulars for the year 1787.

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A RETURN of the number of SUGAR PLANTATIONS in the ifland of JAMAICA, and the NEGRO SLAVES thereon, on the 28th of March, 1789, diftinguishing the feveral Parishes.

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BARBA DOES.

BARBADOES,

ARBADOES, the moft easterly of all the Caribbee islands, fubject to Great-Britain, and, according to the best geographers, lying between 59° 50' and 62° 2' of weft longitude, and between 12° 56' and 13° 16' of north latitude. Its extent is not certainly known; the most general opinion is, that it is twentyfive miles from north to fouth, and fifteen from east to west; but these mensurations are subject to fo many difficulties and uncertainties, that it will perhaps convey a more adequate idea of this ifland to tell the reader, that in reality it does not contain above one hundred and feven thousand acres. The climate is hot but not unwholefome, the heat being qualified by fea breezes; and a temperate regimen renders this ifland as fafe to five in as any climate fouth of Great-Britain; and, according to the opinion of many, as even Great-Britain itself. This ifland has on its eaft fide two ftreams that are called rivers, and in the middle is faid to have a bituminous fpring, which fends forth a liquor like tar, and ferves for the fame ufes as pitch or lamp oil. The ifland abounds in wells of good water, and has feveral reservoirs for faid to be holowed into

rain water.

Some parts

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caves, fome of them capable of containing three hundred people. Thefe are imagined to have been the lurking-places of runaway negroes, but may as probably be natural excavations. The woods that formerly grew upon the island have been all cut down, and the ground converted into fugar plantations. When thofe plantations were first formed, the foil was prodigiously fertile, but has fince been worn out, infomuch, that about the year 1730, the planters were obliged to raife cattle for the fake of their dung, by which means the profit of their plantations was reduced to less than a tenth of its ufual value. Notwithstanding the finallnefs of Barbadoes, its foil is different, being in fome places fandy and light, and others rich, and in others fpungy, but all of it is cultivated according to its proper nature, so that the and prefents to the eye the most beautiful appearance that can

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