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The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

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The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

Name: The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.
Author: Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

Botany, Economic

       91,131  "
       91,020  "
         ...   "
       82,136  "
       97,124  "
       95,372  "
       96,460  "
       85,109  "
       95,858  "
      110,646  "
      105,584  "
      139,036  "
      140,113  "
      115,496  "
      112,163  "
      150,352  "
      146,601  "
      135,203  "
      132,333  "
      114,630  "
      112,208  "
      138,292  "
      113,173  "
      109,158  "
      104,558  "
      127,209  "
      100,382  "
      123,766  "
      121,758  "
      116,382  "
      122,922  "
      119,560  "
       94,515  "
      101,271  "
      106,009  "
       72,090  "
      106,712  "
       87,399  "
      101,575  "
       97,893  "
      100,205  "
       94,381  "
       98,686  "
       85,161  "
       84,756  "
       77,970  "
       67,094  "
       61,505  "
       69,613  "
       49,243  "
       33,066  "
       34,491  "
       50,295  "
       44,169  "
       34,444  "
       47,926  "
       41,678  "

The average of the five years ending 1851, being the first five of
Free trade, shows an annual export from Jamaica of 41,678 hhds.

The quantity of unrefined sugar imported from the British West Indies
and Guiana in a series of years since the emancipation, is shown by
the following abstract:--

                Cwts.           Cwts.
                Sugar.        Molasses.
      4,103,800        323,306
      3,773,456        553,663
      3,646,205        686,794
      3,843,976        650,366
      3,524,209        507,495
      3,601,791        526,535
      3,306,775        575,657
      3,520,676        638,007
      2,824,372        474,307
      2,214,764        424,141
      2,148,218        430,221
      2,508,725        471,759
      2,509,701        605,632
      2,451,063        579,458
      2,853,995        491,083
      2,147,347        477,623
      3,199,814        531,171
      2,794,987        385,484
      2,839,888        605,487
      2,586,429        470,187

_Mauritius_.--In the year 1813 the exports of sugar from this island
were but 549,465 lbs., and increasing gradually to 128,476,547 lbs. in
1849, or two-hundred fold in thirty-six years.

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