610 casks of pimento imported from
Jamaica; in 1824 there were 33,308 bags and 599 casks shipped from the
island; in 1829 the quantity exported was 6,069,127 lbs.

In the year ending October 1843, the export of pimento from Jamaica
was 29,322 bags and 156 casks; in the year ending October 1844, 12,055
bags and 88 casks; in the year ending October 1845, 233 casks, valued
at 30s. each, and 59,494 bags, valued at 20s.

From 1st January to 1st August, 1851, 128,277 lbs. pimento were
shipped from the port of Montego Bay, Jamaica.

There was a very considerable pimento plantation made in Tobago, some
years ago, by a Mr. Franklin, but it was abandoned by his sons, that
they might attend the more exclusively to sugar culture.

Jamaica exported nearly two millions of pounds of pimento less, in
the three years ending 1848, than she did in the three previous to the
emancipation of the slaves. The number of pounds shipped annually, in
these periods, is shown by the following figures:--

Year. lbs.
1830 5,560,620
1831 3,172,320
1832 4,024,800
1846 2,997,060
1847 2,800,140
1848 5,231,908

Pimento is imported into this country in bags of about 100 lbs. each.
The imports have been:--

Year. Imports. Home consumption.
cwts. cwts.
1848 20,773 4,230
1849 24,994 3,419
1850 20,448 3,467
1851 14,840 3,935
1852 22,708 3,872

The following is a statement of the imports from the West Indies, and
the consumption of the United Kingdom, in pounds:--

Entries for
Year. Imports. home consumption.
lbs. lbs.
1831 1,801,355 305,739
1832 1,366,183 296,197
1833 4,770,255 330,890
1834 1,389,402 320,719
1835 2,536,353 343,942
1836 3,230,978 400,941
1837 2,026,128 383,401
1838 892,974 383,997
1839 1,071,511 309,078
1840 999,068 338,969
1841 797,757 297,201
1842 1,643,318 450,683
1843 2,028,658 378,096

The imports have been, in--