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 and Demarara, upon being precluded from the importation of Negroes by foreign ships. The words are:

"It is impossible to inform your High Mightinesses of the real annual diminution of our Slaves, but it is generally calculated at in the, or a . This is little felt the  year: nineteen Negroes hardly perceive that they do the work which the preceding year employed ; but the second year, the same work falls to ; and if another year passes without any augmentation by purchase,  must do the work  allotted to twenty. This must give rise to , , and ; or if the Negroes put up patiently with this surcharge of labour, , and , must be the consequence; or lastly, if the Planters seek to avoid these inconveniencies, they must gradually contract the limits of their plantations, and of course diminish their produce.”