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<p>East Florida while I think of it — I met with a Gentleman<lb/>yesterday at M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Lind's, a M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Barker a captain in the<lb/> | <p>East Florida while I think of it — I met with a Gentleman<lb/>yesterday at M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Lind's, a M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Barker a captain in the<lb/>Merchants service who has 3 Brothers settled there. He tells<lb/>me it has been computed that since the acquisition of the Colony<lb/>about £100,000 has been laid out in all by settlers — that the <add>last</add> produce<lb/> <add>viz for a year</add> sent to England was worth about 12,000£ and that it is<lb/> now increasing rapidly — That of that £100,000 a considerable<lb/> <sic>some</sic> has been rank by the dishonesty or incapacity of agents,<lb/> that his Brothers in the course of 3 years fling every 600£<lb/>in that way, and nothing done — that since they have been there themselves<lb/>they have laid out as much more as makes £3000<lb/>that the last (which indeed I believe with their post) crop of Indigo<lb/>was 1000 lb weight which might sell here for about £350.<lb/>That the Indigo is much superior to that of <unclear>Carobria</unclear>, and promises<lb/> to be equal to the best which is the Spanish & need to come from<lb/> the <unclear>formula</unclear> of Guatemala, (in moreover I believe) the capital of <lb/>which is lately destroy'd.</p> | ||
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East Florida while I think of it — I met with a Gentleman
yesterday at Mr Lind's, a Mr Barker a captain in the
Merchants service who has 3 Brothers settled there. He tells
me it has been computed that since the acquisition of the Colony
about £100,000 has been laid out in all by settlers — that the last produce
viz for a year sent to England was worth about 12,000£ and that it is
now increasing rapidly — That of that £100,000 a considerable
some has been rank by the dishonesty or incapacity of agents,
that his Brothers in the course of 3 years fling every 600£
in that way, and nothing done — that since they have been there themselves
they have laid out as much more as makes £3000
that the last (which indeed I believe with their post) crop of Indigo
was 1000 lb weight which might sell here for about £350.
That the Indigo is much superior to that of Carobria, and promises
to be equal to the best which is the Spanish & need to come from
the formula of Guatemala, (in moreover I believe) the capital of
which is lately destroy'd.
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Correspondence |
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Jeremy Bentham |
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