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eddies or falls. Here they are once more
collected, each party claiming his own
from the general mass, and formed into
separate rafts for their fiaal destination.
Sometimes more than a thousand logs to-
gether are supported by the booms, and
the catastrophe attendant on their break-
ing asunder, which during extraordinary
floods often happens, has been previously
noticed.
 The mahogany, when disposed of at
 Honduras, produces from sixteen to thirty
 pounds, Jamaica currency, per thousand
 feet: the price of this article, however,
 tan seldom be fixed, and must always
 fluctuate as it may be governed by qua-
 lity or size. The shipping of it to Eu-
 rope, especially during war, has seldom
 been found advantageous, excepting to a
 few individuals, who have succeeded in
 establishing a kind of preference in the
 London market. The exporting of it to
the American States would, it is consi-