factures of Great Britain. Theſe they paid for in gold and ſilver, or gave in exchange Muſcovada and clayed ſugar, coffee, cotton, gums, ſpices, ivory, mahogany, and dying-woods, the produce of their iſlands; all of which articles were exported to Great Britain in Engliſh bottoms; and thereby were productive of great advantages to the trade and navigation of the mother country.
The Americans imported thither lumber, boards, ſhingles, wood-hoops, ſtaves, tobacco, flour, rice, ſalt-fiſh, horſes, cattle, ſheep, hogs, and feathered ſtock, the produce of North America. Theſe were neceſſary articles for the new ſettlers, who paid for them in rum and molaſſes; or ſuch other produce of the iſland as was at that time permitted to be exported in American veſſels from the British Weft Indies.
