 | 1807 - 770 pages
...progressive diminution of the price of sugar, although, at the same time the duty, and all the expenses attending the cultivation, have been increasing, till...obtained for the last year's crop will not pay the expense of cultivation, except upon estates on a very great scale, making sugar of a very superior... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1807 - 544 pages
....hayc ".been- iflcreasiug, till at length the depression of the market has become fcuch, that tlje prices .obtained for the last year's crop will not...cultivation, except upon estates -on. a very great scale, tnakipg sugar of a very superior quality, or enjoying other extraordinary ad-, vantages. Calculations... | |
 | 1807 - 542 pages
...cultivation, have been increasing, till at li:m.',ih t!:e depression of the market has be.comc'sueli, that the prices obtained for the .last year's crop will not pay the exporce of cultivation, except upon estates on a very great scale, making sugtir of a very superior... | |
 | Nathaniel Atcheson - 1808 - 398 pages
...the expences and profits of a great variety of estates, and generally conversant with the West India commerce. From their testimony it appears, that since...superior quality, or enjoying other extraordinary advantages.—Calculations have been laid before your committee, from the accounts of estates both... | |
 | Bryan Edwards - 1819 - 520 pages
...were tottering on the brink of ruin. " At length the depression of the market," said the report, " has become such, that the prices obtained for the last year's crop will not pay the expense of cultivation, except upon estates on a very great scale, making sugar of a very superior... | |
 | Earl Henry George Grey Grey - 1853 - 484 pages
...progressive diminution of the price of sugar, although, at the same time, the duty and all the expenses attending the cultivation have been increasing, till...obtained for the last year's crop will not pay the expense of cultivation, except upon estates on a very great scale, making sugar of a very superior... | |
 | Franz Hochstetter - 1906 - 1010 pages
...sugar, although at the same tiinc the duty und all the expences have been increasing, till at leugth the depression of the market has become such, that the prices obtained for the last year's orop will not pay the expence of cultivation except upori estates .... enjoying other extraordinary... | |
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... attending the cultivation, have been increasing, till at length the depression of the market has become such, that the prices obtained for the last year's crop will not pay the expence of cultivation, except upon estates on a very great scale, making... 