INTERCOURSE WITH AFRICA. 26l So that if IQOlb. of loaf sugar rendered at Timbuctoo cost 120. (Sd, and sells there for 100 Mexico dollars at 45. Qd. each, or for 22/. 5s.

there will result a profit of 270 per cent.

The profit in fine goods, such as the linens before mentioned, is still more considerable, not being subject to so heavy a charge for carriage. The immense quantity of ' gold dust and gold bars that would be brought from Timbuctoo, Wangara, Gana, and other countries, in exchange for this merchandise, would be incalculable, and has, perhaps, never yet been contemplated by Europeans ! !— In the same work, above quoted, 3d edition, page 289, will be found a list of the various merchandise exportable from Great Britain, which suit the market of the interior of Africa or Sudan : and also a list of the articles which we should receive in return for those goods.

Plans to penetrate to the mart of Timbuctoo (which would supply Housa, Wangara, Gana, and other districts of Sudan with European merchandize) have been formed ; but if a treaty of commerce were made with any of the Negro kings, these plans would be subject to various impediments.

The Kings, David and Solomon, extracted from Africa to enrich the temple of Jerusalem upwards of 800,000,000/.

sterling, a sum sufficient to discharge the national debt ; see Commercial Magazine for May 1819, page 6.; which is eight times as much gold as the mines of Brazil have produced since their discovery in 1756. See Commercial Magazine for the same month, page 44-.

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