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 mall quantity of that article for uch an extenive iland, or even for the number of plantations in it, at preent under cultivation: for, uppofing thee fifty etates contained only two thouand acres of land in canes, which is a very mall calculation, as everal ingle etates have upwards of one hundred acres, and few les than ixty: this is at the rate only of a hoghead and a half per acre.

In the Englih old ettled ilands, three hogheads of ugar for every acre in canes, on an average, is conidered as a very moderate produce; for, after good eaonable weather previous to the crop, ome lands have been known to yield from four to five hogheads per acre. From the great diproportion in point of yielding, between the lands of other ilands and thoe of Dominica, the uperior fertility of the former may be inferred; which, however, is by no means the cae: for the lands of