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SKETCH OF GUATEMALA.
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that Guatemala is much better supplied with British goods than is Mexico.


Recapitulation of the Trade of Guatemala.


Trade from and to Jamaica.
Value imported by Guatemalian merchants 350,000
Do. smuggled into Omoa and Nicaragua 100,000
Profit to Jamaica merchants, ten per cent 45,000
Total imported into Guatemala from Jamaica £495,000
Value of returns in indigo and cochineal, for British goods imported by Guatemalian merchants 350,000
Do. do. for British goods smuggled 100,000
Total exported from Guatemala into Jamaica 450,000
Total value of the trade from and to Jamaica £945,000
Trade from and to Belize.
Value of dry goods imported by British merchants 1,500,000