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inferior and lighter-coloured find a sale in Eussia. The 

 mountain product is much inferior in quality and is sent 

 chiefly to Europe. When the leaves are petiolate, or 

 furnished with stems, they are made up in manoks 

 ("hands") of 10-15, and termed hashi-haghli ("head- 

 tied ") ; when the leaves are sessile, or devoid of stems, 

 they are simply pressed together in small numbers, and 

 called hassma. The whole produce of this locality varies 

 from 2,100,000 to 2,450,000 lb. yearly. The growth 

 obtained in the Vale of Pravista is known as Demirli. It 

 is inferior, unsubstantial, and dark-coloured, and usually 

 made up as hashi-baghli. The annual production is about 

 2 million lb. ; the exports to England were 1,600,000 lb. 

 in 1871. CavaUa affords yearly about 300,000 lb. of 

 inferior quality, chiefly as hasJii-haghli, and mostly con- 

 sumed locally. The shipping port for all these places is 

 Cavalla. 



The district of Sarishaban produces on the average 

 about 2,000,000 lb. annually, but the crop of 1871 

 reached 2,800,000 lb. About | is as hashi-haghli. That 

 grown on the plain and hills is termed ghynheh, and forms 

 the bulk ; that from the slopes, about 500,000 lb. a year, 

 is the best, and is known as ghuheJc. All is packed up 

 in small hoghchas (parcels), of 30-50 lb., which are dis- 

 tinguished as heyaz, from the white cotton wrappers used 

 for the best sort, and henavir, from the canvas coverings 

 of the inferior kinds. The best goes to Constantinople, 

 secondary to Smyrna and other home markets, and the 

 worst to Europe. The district of Yenidji, near the Gulf 

 of Lagos, affords some 3,500,000 lb. per annum, chiefly 

 as hassma, and bearing a very general resemblance to the 



