There is little to be said about the domestic animals. The horses are generally small, but strong and full of endurance, and are of Spanish breed. Mules and donkeys are plentiful, as no person is satisfied unless he possesses some beast of burden. The cattle are supplied from the Dominican part of the island, and are much used for traction. Good beef may often be found in the markets. Sheep and goats are plentiful, but of inferior breeds, whilst pigs wander about untended, and are generally so lean that they warrant the reproach that the Haytians cannot even fatten a pig. Poultry are thought to be getting scarcer than formerly: they are generally of an inferior kind. COMMERCE. Hayti has for many years carried on a very fair commerce with Europe and America, though probably not a quarter of what she might have if her inhabitants were industrious. In the colonial days, the exports were valued at from £6,000,000 to £8,000,000 a year, and in 1790 had reached nearly £11,000,000 with a less numerous population, whilst the highest since the independence has probably not exceeded £2,300,000. Notwithstanding foreign wars, civil wars, insurrections, and those continued conspiracies which have almost every year disturbed the country, the productive powers of the soil are so great, that nothing appears permanently to depress the exports, and therefore the imports. The export trade of Hayti in 1835, which then included the whole island, was as follows:-- Lbs. Value. Coffee 48,352,371 $6,812,849 Logwood 13,293,737 86,409 Cotton 1,649,717 247,457 Mahogany, feet 5,413,316 405,998 Tobacco 2,086,606 125,196 Cacao 397,321 47,678 ---------- $7,725,587 At the exchange of the day this represented just £1,000,000 sterling. The last year in which the statistics refer to the whole island is 1842. M. Madiou, in his “History of Hayti,” vol. i. p. 31, gives the amount of the produce exported in the years 1842 and 1845, but does not affix a value to them:-- 1842. Coffee 40,759,064 lbs. Cotton 880,517 ” Logwood 19,563,147 ” Tobacco 2,518,612 ” Cigars 700,000 No. Mahogany 4,096,716 feet and various small amounts of miscellaneous articles.