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 everal valuable elates of that decription belonging to the Englih inhabitants of it; and the coffee produced in this iland is eteemed uperior to that of mot others in the Wet Indies.

It is computed, that, one year with another, there are between four and five millions of pounds weight of that article produced, and exported annually from this iland to Great Britain, where it ells from 4l. 15s. to 5l. 5s. per hundred weight.

The cultivation of cocoa is not much attended to by the Englih planters; and the mall quantity which is exported, is chiefly raied on the plantations of the French inhabitants.

Indigo is manufactured on only two or three Englih etates in the iland; but they have lately very much neglected that article, owing to