KELP. 26$ 



lessened so considerably, that it can be sold at a 

 price which renders the inferior article, kelp, no 

 longer in so great demand ; consequently the golden 

 harvests of the proprietors of the kelp shores of 

 the Orkneys have been interrupted. More than 

 250,000 cwt. of barilla were imported into, and 

 retained in England for home consumption in the 

 year 1831. Its price, without the duty, was about 

 .10 per ton. The duty is now 2 shillings per 

 hundred weight. 



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