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The principal exports from Sweden, as we have already 

 shown, are timber, iron, and oats, and the principal imports 

 into the country are sugar, coffee, cotton, wool, hides, salt, 

 and tobacco. 



In 1860, 35,707,000 Ib. of raw, and 3,671,000 Ib. of 

 refined sugar, and of coffee 15,000,000 Ib. were imported, 

 being just treble the imports of twenty years back. 



It is curious to see how the taste for coffee has increased 

 in these northern climes during the last century. In 1 740, 

 when the population of Sweden amounted to 1,615,000 

 people, the consumption of coffee was only 13,701 Ib., and 

 of sugar 1,675,034 Ib. In 1860, the yearly consumption 

 was, of coffee, above 4 Ib. and of sugar 10 Ib. to every person 

 in the country. But tea and wine are not much drunk in 

 Sweden, the consumption in 1860 being, of tea 0.02 Ib. and 

 of wine 0.16 kanna to each person. In Norway the con- 

 sumption of coffee is even greater, being about 8 Ib. yearly 

 to each person. The tea which you generally get here, is, as 

 they very properly call it, in comparison to what we brew 

 in England, " tea-water ;" but they can make you a good 

 cup of coffee. 



The import of salt in 1860 was above 2,000,000 cubic 

 feet; wool, 2,500,000 Ib. ; tobacco blade, 4,000,000 Ib. In 

 that year the principal exports were as follows : 1,390,000 

 dozen boards and planks ; 620,000 dozen beams ; of bar iron, 

 2296 cwt. ; of corn, 10,850,000 cubic feet; and of lucifer 

 matches 433,745 rqr. in value. 



The Custom duties in all amounted, in 1860, to 

 13,422,000 rix-dollars; of which sugar paid 3,333,000 rqr.; 

 cloth, 2,400,000 rqr. ; coffee, 1,515,000 rqr. ; tobacco, 

 1,333,000 rqr. 



The value of the principal imports in 1860 was reckoned 

 as follows : 



rqr. 



Sugar . . . 12^100,000 



Cottonwool . . . 10,200,000 

 Coffee .... 9,100,000 



Cloth . . . . 7,000,000 



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