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and this is an evil, as I shall show hereafter, that will 
be little helped by our keeping Guadaloupe. 
The trade to our northern colonies is not only 
greater, but yearly increasing with the increase of 
the people; and even in a greater proportion, as the 
people increase in wealth and the ability of spend- 
ing, as well as in numbers.” I have already said, 
The writer has obtained accounts of the exports to North America 
and the West India Islands, by which it appears that there has been 
some increase of trade to those Islands, as well as to North America, 
though in a much less degree. The following extract from these ac- 
counts will show the reader, at one view, the amount of the exports 
to each, in two different terms of five years; the terms taken at ten 
years’ distance from each other, to show the increase, viz. : 
First term, from 1744 to 1748, inclusive. 
Northern Colonies. West India Islands. 
1744 £640,114 12 £796,112 17 9 
1745 534,316 2 503,669 19 
1746 754.945 4 472,994 16 7 
1747 726,648 5 856,463 18 5 
1748 830,243 1 3734,095 5 I 
Total, £3,486,268 2 3,303,337 10 1D 
Difference, 122,930 10 4 
£3,486,268 I 2 
Second term, from 1754 to 1758, inclusive. 
Northern Colonies. West India Islands. 
¥754 041,246,615 1] 31 £685,675 3 oo 
1755 1,177,848 § 10 694,667 13 3 
1756 1,428,720 13 a 733,458 16 3 
1757 1,727,924 ~ .4 776,488 o 5 
1758 1,832,048 1” 877.571 19 ‘11 
Total, £7,414,057 5 3,767,841 12 II 
Difference, 3,646,215 rx 4 
£7.414057 4 3 
In the first term, total of West India Islands, £3,363,337 10 10 
In the second term, ditto . . . 3767.841 12 11 
Increase, only £404,504 2 x 
In the first term, total for the northern colonies, 3,486,268 t 2 
In the second term, ditto . , : - 7,414,057 ! 
Increase, £3,927,789 3 1 
By these accounts it appears that the exports to the West India 
[slands, and to the northern colonies, were in the first term nearly 
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