IMPORTANCE OF THE WEST INDIES.
1788
| 450,000 Negroes, at 50l. per head | £.22,500,000 |
| Utensils, mules, and crop on the ground, double the value of the Negroes | 45,000,000 |
| Value of houses in towns, trading and coasting vessels, and their crews | 2,500,000 |
| Capital | 70,000,000 |
| Employing 689 vessels, 148,176 tons, equal to the whole trade of the country at the end of the last century, navigated by 14,000 seamen, exclusive of African, American, and Newfoundland Colonies, and the American States. | |
| The gross duties to the British Empire | 1,800,000 |
