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Exports.	Quantity.			Price at Rio	Total value.
Sugar		13,000 chests of 15,00 cwt. each.		4d. per lb.	£325,000
Ruma		5,000 leaguers of 150 galls. each		15d. per gall.	46,875
Coffeeb	800,000 lb. wt.			6d per lb	40,000
Gold	400,000 half joes			2l. each	800,000
Silverc		700,000 Spanish dollars		5s. each	175,000
Raw Hidesd	3,000 tons			–	90,000
Rice	500 tons			25l. a ton	7,500
Cotton	800 tons			1s. per lb.	89,600
Indigo	trifling, perhaps			–	10,000
Cochineale		variable, perhaps		about	30,000
Cocoaf
Dye wood
Drugs
Total value of Exports,					£1,613,975

a 200 leaguers are sent to Angola for the purchase of slaves.

b In the year 1794, 40,000 lb, of coffee only was exported.
c This is sent to China and India. The Brasils have no silver mines, but procure it from the Spanish settlements in dollars: part is recoined into crown pieces for Colonial currency.
d Brought from Rio Grande.
e Procured from the Spanish settlements on the Rio Plata.
f Increasing.

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About fifty ships, from three hundred to eight hundred tons each, sail annually from this port to Europe; these

vessels