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 of Great Britain. Thee they paid for in gold and ilver, or gave in exchange Mucovada and clayed ugar, coffee, cotton, gums, pices, ivory, mahogany, and dying-woods, the produce of their ilands; all of which articles were exported to Great Britain in Englih bottoms; and thereby were productive of great advantages to the trade and navigation of the mother country.

The Americans imported thither lumber, boards, hingles, wood-hoops, taves, tobacco, flour, rice, alt-fih, hores, cattle, heep, hogs, and feathered tock, the produce of North America. Thee were neceary articles for the new ettlers, who paid for them in rum and molaes; or uch other produce of the iland as was at that time permitted to be exported in American veels from the British Weft Indies. The