Paifoe 
FAI 
communicating with that of Turon, and capable of re- 
ceiving ships of 200 tons. The best anchorage is on 
the west side of the island of Cham Calloa, in N. Lat. 
15° 54, opposite the river, and about three 
from the main. The town of Faifoe, which is 
10 miles from the ses, was once wery lange, snd pos: 
wars, but is now re- 
portance. The vessels which ar- 
rive at Faifoe are gna cap! Chinese, Japanese, and the 
country ya, aber I A hundred Chinese junks 
are said to have come annually tan top ome are 
cline. The principal articles whi ex in- 
to Faifoe were Se ches ware, tea, dined fruits, 
drugs, sticks of sandal wood, linen cloth, false Js, or- 
naments, of various kinds, dried blubber, dam- 
mer, ink, isin , sweatmeats, talc, lackered ware, and 
great quantities of tutenague, the last of which the king 
always engrosses to himself. The Japanese import 
chiefly 
copper, and several articles similar to those enu- 
merated. ‘The country ships import several E 
and Asiatic commodities, such as. braziery, c ® 
cloths, guns and gunpowder, saltpetre, silver, cl 
and watches, tobacco, opium, gold lace, brimstone, cam- 
blets, furs, glass ware, hardware, ironmo! 
tin, sandal wood, ee one pally 
The exports from Faifoe to China were’ princi 
beetle cat Deck wood, bullock’s bones, : calavances, 
cardamoms, cotton, dried sea snails, dried fish, drugs, 
pepper, Ja 
mer, birds cote blue, (a kind of smalts), cassia, cloves 
and nutmegs, deer’s sinews, mats of rattan, elephant’s 
teeth and es, fish glue, boge, coarse linen, rat-. 
¢ pi op 
tans, wood for aa of vances deer 
and elephants, stil tin, wax, 5 | sugar 
candy m t quantities, which reckoned the fins 
in the wor’ he exports to Japan were ebony, nam- 
morack, , fish skins in great quantities, hare- 
skins, cow hides, buffaloes horns, white and dark sugar, 
Cambodia nuts, bark, drugs, Sellaw, and silk stuffs. 
The exports to India are principally ly and 
sugar. Various articles are also to Batavia, 
Manilla, and Siam. The duty on all imports. is 12 per 
cent. ; and the master of every vessel must give in a 
statement of all his goods, and agree to pay a certain 
sum every time that the ship arrives. The 
pay annually 3000 quans, (600 of which is equivalent 
to2 rupees, or 1 Spanish dollar, ) and the Chinese only 
from 1500 to 2000, according to the size of their junks. 
It is necessary to present the king with a piece of scar- 
let cloth, some fine long cloth, a sword, telescope, &c. 
and the principal mandarin at Hue, which is the royal 
residence, must also be attended to. See Milburn’s 
Oriental Commerce, vol ii. p. 452. (w) 
FAIRHEAD, is situated in the county of Antrim, 
my 3 the fe ME ee angle < Ireland, and ag 
to the is in or » in . 6 2’ W, 
of Greenwich, and Lat. seat N- vane ; 
This bold headland is composed of the most consider+ 
able mass of greenstone in the British islands, The 
greatest thickness of the bed is 260 feet, and its eleva- 
tion above the sea 545 feet. The greenstone rests on 
strata of sandstone, which dip south-west, and in these, 
a little to the west, the mine of is si- 
t 
Fairhead, in consequence of its superior elevation, is 
» lead, 
looking glasses, mathematical instruments, piece goods, 
wood, powder, agala wood, beech de: 
west by south, and is overlaid by sandstone at the dis« 
fall with a tremendous crash elow. 
rr tcimarger pe ars ay, place ; and, from the 
the same substance, very ing ba~ 
salt.on the and the surfaces, and very 
fine grain is again observable... Fairhead dips, alittle: 
Ntieraing te, Dabourien,, a apesine alaaaieeied 
ing to Du ieu, a i ; 
which promises to be a profitable return tothe proprie- 
tors, has been found in the strata the green- 
stone on both sides of Fairhead ; and what is remarka« 
