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Show 17G 'l'lil': J,IIH:IIT\' nJ·:J,J,. one of tho most producti,·c articles of trallic. But thoro is one branch of industry, of no importance in colonial times, which now absorbs the strength of g1·cat number~, viz., the trade in mahogany, which has found nn immense opening in England nnd Germany; and thus this now business ha!i become a source of wealth to those who have dc\' oted thcm£elYcS to it; tho principal markets of it nrc G-onah·cs, Port-au-Prince, and Santo Domingo. Since the separation of the cast<lrn part of the island from tho llaylians, this product diminishes gradually, by reason of tho difficulty of obtaining tho trees, which arc mostly found in the forests of the cast, at present forming the Dominican territory. Sugar, white and clayed, is no longer made, because the Dutch ancl American sugars can be obtained in our towns at a more favorable price; and the larger part of tho syrup which comes from the sugar-cane is unhappily made into rum for homo consumption- a business too widely spread, and fatal to the people, whom it brings more and more 177 to brutality nnJ. to .a1 l euess, cnfccblinO' . . gent youth already under tl . fl o an mtelh. . . . le m uence of a crtmg clnnato. So th . n ox- . ere rs a sensible decrease tho populntwn, chiefly in tho c't' I of f I 1 IeS, W ICrC 0. fl·igJ t- U consumption of these . . . 1 b reason . spll'ltuous liquors occurs, y 'l of tho •ndolcncc wI . I Hc 1 extensively provm s, and which is called killing time. Our commerce now consists m. coffee cacao, co. tton, bees--wax, honey, ginger, starch,' grc crtron, citron·juice' oran gcs, cacao-straw gumen. guiacum, cassia pistacb. ' ' < IO, raw liides, tortoise· shell, ox·horns, and linen . precious woods rags' and, among the . ' mahogany - which is divided mto tho following kinds ' vt·.z ., t ho waved tb spotted, and tho ordinm~ . -1 ' e • J ' ogwood, of which the best ". that of St. Mark '. -I'tg numvl.l ro, fustic and brazJl-wood. Other kinds . ' bl . ' qmte as remark· a e, mJgbt be advantageously used . b tries, -such as d m ot er coun· ce ar, manchineel, yclJow sand J. wood, marble-wood ' w1 u ·t c·wood, cochon·wood, whiat e |