SOURCE: The Saturday Magazine, No. 117. Supplement, April, 1834
The immense ranges of warehouses which divide the Import and Export Docks are not less deserving of notice than the latter; they are chiefly filled with rum, brandy, and colonial produce, and in the warehouses partly surrounding the Import Dock, there is stowage-room for 160,000 hogsheads of sugar, besides a large quantity of coffee, &c. In these warehouses, and under the spacious sheds surrounding the quays, 148,563 casks of sugar, 70,875 barrels and 433,648 bags of coffee, 35,158 pipes of rum and Madeira wine, 14,021 logs of mahogany, and 21,350 tons of logwood, besides other merchandise, have been deposited at one time. The West India Dock Company's capital is 1,380,000l., and, in consequence of all West India ships trading to the Port of London, having been compelled to frequent these docks for twenty years after their formation, the profits during that period were immense.
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