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and ten pounds) imported from Caraccas, was 645,215.During eighteen years fubfequent to 1751, the number ofFanegas imported was 869,247 ; and if we fuppofe theimportation to be continued in the fame proportion duringthe remainder of thirty years, it will amount to 1,448,746Fanegas, which is an increafe of 805,551 Fanegas. Id.p. 148- During eight years fubfequent to 1756, there hasbeen imported into Spain by the Company, 88,482 arrobas(each twenty-five pounds) of tobacco ; and hides to thenumber of 177,554. Id. 161. Since the publication ofthe Noticias de Campania, in 1765 , its trade feems tobe on the increafe. During five years fubfequent to 1769,it has imported 179,156 Fanegas of cacao into Spain ,56,208 arrobas of tobacco, 75,496 hides, and 221,452pefos in fpecie. Campomanes, ii. 162. The laft articleis a proof of the growing wealth of the colony. It receivescafh from Mexico in return for the cacao, with which itfupplies that province , and this it remits to Spain , or laysout in purchafing European goods. But, befides this, themoft explicit evidence is produced , that the quantity of cacaoraifed in the province is double to what it yielded in 17515the number of its live-ftock is more than treble , and itsinhabitants much augmented. The revenue of the bifhop,which arifes wholly from tithes, has increafed from eightto twenty thoufand pefos. Notic. p. 69. In confequenceof the augmentation of the quantity of cacao imported intoSpain , its price has decreafed from eighty pefos forthe tanega to forty. Id. 61. Since the publication of thefirlt edition , I have learned that Guyana , including allthe extenfive provinces fituated on the banks of the Orinoco,the iflands of Trinidad and Margarita are added to thecountries with which the company of Caraccas had libertyof trade by their former charters. Real Cedula, Nov. 19.1776. But I have likewife been informed , that theinftitution of this company has not been attended with allthe beneficial effedts which I have afcribed to it. In manyof its operations the illiberal and oppreflive fpirit of mono-■poly is confpicuous. But in order to explain this, iS