[27] Macpherson, vol. iv. p. 10.
[28] Macpherson, Annals of Commerce, vol. i. p. 485-486.
[29] Bryan Edwards, West Indies, vol. ii. p. 450.
[30] Officially, Statute of 15 Charles II.
[31] Reeves, p. 50.
[32] Chalmers, Opinions on Interesting Subjects, p. 28.
[33] Bryan Edwards, West Indies, vol. ii. p. 443-444 (3d Edition).
[34] Works of John Adams, vol. viii. p. 228.
[35] Compare with Sheffield, Observations on the Commerce of the American States (Edition February, 1784), p. 137, note; from which, indeed, these figures seem to have been taken, or from some common source.
[36] Coxe's View of the United States of America, Philadelphia, 1794, p. 330.