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CHAP. IX.
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AVERAGE EXPORTS FROM THE FRENCH PART OF ST. DOMINGO, BEFORE THE REVOLUTION. Livres.
Clayed fugar Mufcovado Coffee Cotton Indigo Molaffes -
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An inferior fort of rum, cal-7 led taffia J Raw hides Tanned ditto -
lbs. 58,642,214 lbs. 86,549,829 lbs. 71,663,187 lbs. 6,698,858 Hhds. 951,607 Hhds. 23,061
Hhds. -
2,600
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N° 6,500 —N°7,900—
T h e total value at the ports of fhipping, in livres of St. Domingo, was -
41,049,549 34,619,931 71,663,187 12,397,716 8,564,463 2,767,320 312,000 3 5,2000 118,500
171,544,666
being equal to £. 4,765,129 fterling money of Great Britain. I F this ftatement be compared by the rule of proportion with the exports from Jamaica, the refult will be confiderably in fa vour of St. Domingo, i. e. it will be found that the planters of Jamaica receive fmaller returns from the labours of their negroes, in proportion to their numbers, than the planters of St. Domingo have received from theirs. For this difference various caufes have been affigned, and advantages allowed, and qualities afcribed to the French planters, which I venture to pronounce, on full enquiry, had no existence. T h e true caufe arofe, undoubtedly, from the fuperior fertility of the foil ; and, above all, from the prodigious benefit which refulted to the French planters from the fyftem
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