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confumption. The city of Faifo or Foy Foe, is the emporium 

 from which the Chinefe annually export about forty thoufand 

 barrels, each weighing above two thoufand pouids. To the 

 credit of thefe orientalifts, all the cultivation, and all the pofterior 

 proceffes in the production of the fugar, is the voluntary labo^ 

 of freemen. 



To thefe articles of commerce may be added woods of different 

 kinds, fuch as aloes wood, oT^gollocba^ erroneoufly called Eagle- Agollocha. 

 •wood, Columba^ and others of value, either in mechan ics, or for their 

 fweet fcent. The price of Columba wood on the very fpot is five Columba 



Woods. 



ducats a pound, at the ports lixteen, and in Japan, to which 

 much is exported, two hundred. A pillow of this wood is the 

 highefl luxury with the orientalifts, particularly the Japanefe, 

 who will give three or four hundred ducats per pound for a 

 piece big enough for that purpofe. The Agollocha bears a good 

 price; great quantities being fliipped for H'lndooflan, for the ufe 

 of the Hindoos to burn their dead,^ who feem to emulate the an- 

 tient Romans in the aromatic profufion of their funeral piles. 



Pepper grows here in abundance. Le Poivre and Raynal Pepper. 

 mention that cinnamon, fuperior to that of Ceylon, is found on a 

 certain mountain, for which the Chinefe pay a higher price than 

 for that brought from the famous itaple of that fpice. CaJJia is 

 another fpice ; let me queltion whether the two are not con- 

 founded. 



Cotton is mnch cultivated, as is the mulberry tree, for the Cotton. 

 life of the filk- worms; great quantities of coarfe filks are made 

 here, fome fo ftrong as to ferve for fails and cordage, but the 

 fineft forts alfo are manufactured. The impofing Chinefe export 



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