What trade has the Province under your Government with any Foreign Plantations, or any part of Europe besides Great Britain how is that Trade carried on, what Commodities do the People under your Government send to or receive from Foreign Plantations, and what is the annual Amount thereof at an Average 1 ;

Answer

A considerable Trade is carried on from this to the Foreign West India Islands, Surrinam and Honduras Bay.

Provisions and Lumber are the principal Articles with which they are supplied

from hence.

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Trade with Foreign PlanicltlOHS CvCCl

in Sugar, Molassses, Dye Woods, Mahogany, Hides,

Silver, and Bills of Exchange.

There are a few vessels employed annually in the African Trade, their Outward Cargoes are chiefly Rum and some British Manufactures. The high price and ready sale they meet with for

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their Slaves in the West Indies induce them always to dispose of their cargoes among the Islands.

To Madeira & Teneriffe the Trade from hence is considerable. Madeira Teneriffe.

The outward Cargoes are composed The returns

of Wheat,' Indian Corn,' Flour,' Provisions in General,' Lumber and Beeswax.

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are ma(je j n Wines, the greatest part of which are carried directly from Madeira to the

British and foreign West India Islands, there sold

and West India Cargoe purchased with which the

Vessel returns.

When Grain is Scarce in Europe there is also a very considerable Trade from hence to the Spanish Spanish &

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ports in the Bay of Biscay and to other Foreign ports in Europe lying to the Southward of