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“...therefore capable of pro-
ducing large crops of sugar, cocoa, and all kinds
of tropical produce. About 300,000 acres are
now in cultivation, 590,472 remaining as yet
ungranted. Cocoa is by far the largest industry
of the island, thlT value of the exports of this
commodity being now considerably more than
that of sugar, which only occupies second place.
Molasses, rum, bitters (Trinidad is the present
home of the famous Angostura bitters, the manu-
facture of which was transferred there from Angos-
tura or Ciudad Bolivar in Venezuela, owing to the
troubled state of that republic), cocoa-nuts, coffee,
copra, fruit, and asphalt (from the famous pitch
lake described below), also figure largely among
the exports.
The following is a comparative table of the
revenue and expenditure, and the imports and
exports, of the colony for the last six years :—
Year. Revenue. Expenditure. Imports. Exports.
1900 . . 1901- 2 . . 1902- 3 . . 1903- 4 • • 1904- 5 . . 1905- 6. . £696,939 712.394 788,404 804,440 811...”
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