History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics: Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present TimeBallou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
History
History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics: Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time
Ballou, Maturin M. (Maturin Murray)
Cuba -- Description and travel; Cuba -- History
Sugar (boxes) 671,440 318,931 13,900 34,628
Coffee (arrobas, 25lbs. each) 93,797 61,251 1,094
Molasses (hhds.) 25,886 61,793 60,508 8,327
Rum (pipes) 10,479 1
Cigars (thousands) 136,980 62
Mariel. Gibaro. Remedios. Neuvitas. Baracoa.
Sugar (boxes) 1,648 5,595 4,293
Coffee (arrobas) 16,241 114
Molasses (hhds.) 8,336 16,201 1,880 5,030
Rum (pipes) 223
Cigars (boxes, 1000 each) 588 88 2,061 247
Tobacco (lbs.) 1,867,736 2,267 102,168
_South Side._
Manzanilla. Trinidad. St. Jago Cienfuegos. Santa
de Cuba. Cruz.
Sugar (boxes) 115 69,656 31,298 59,215 198
Coffee (arrobas) 3,609 548,432 128
Molasses (hhds.) 1,475 26,175 857 14,160 997
Rum (pipes) 60 554 379 181
Tobacco (lbs.) 315,570 1,208,536 5,000 2,669
Cigars (thousands) 542 399 4,575 41 155
Copper ore (lbs.) 571,826
_Universities, Schools, etc._--Besides the Royal University at Havana,
there are several other learned institutes, such as the Royal Seminary
of San Carlos y San Ambrosio, founded in 1773; a seminary for girls,
founded in 1691; a free school for sculpture and painting, which dates
from 1818; a free mercantile school, and some private seminaries, to
which we have before referred. The Royal Economical Society of Havana,
formerly called the Patriotic Society, was established in 1793, and is
divided into three principal sections, on education, agriculture,
commerce and popular industry; a department of history has been added.
Several eminent and talented men have given eclat to this institution.
The Medical School was organized in 1842.
The means of general education are very narrow and inadequate. No report
on the state of education in the island has been published since 1836.
At that time, there were two hundred and ten schools for white, and
thirty-one for colored children. In 1842, the public funds for
educational purposes were reduced from thirty-two thousand to eight
thousand dollars. Nueva Filipina, in a rich tobacco-growing district,
with a population of thirty thousand souls, had but one school for forty
pupils, a few years since.
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