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Reports of British and American trade.
A compaction of lats annual reports of British and American trade, shows some curious facts in regard to what Americans and Englishmen eat and drink, and otherwise consume.
In regard to coffee, the United States consumed nearly five times as much as Great Britain, whilst the consumption of tea, on the other hand, was nearly seventy-four millions of pounds in Great Britain to not more than twenty-nine millions here.
The annual consumption of sugar in Great Britain was 847,693,400 lbs.; here, 437,029,020 lbs, of foreign sugar, twenty-four and a half millions of molasses — a good deal of it made into rum — and three hundred pounds of cane and maple sugar, made in this country.
Of cocoa, the annual consumption of Great Britain, more than three million pounds; here, not quite one million.
The British annual consumption of wine is 6,697,146 gallons, and of brandy, though the English duty is very high on brandy, gin, &c., 1,108,115 gallons