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17 depression, and the last years of slavery: and fourthly, the years 1835-7, being those of apprenticeship. They stand thus—

If then we compare the annual proceeds under the apprenticeship, favoured as they have been by high prices, with the three last years of slavery, we have an increased return of £.920,000 annually: but if with the highest returns which the West Indies have made,