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sell " real foreign cigars" — which additions would 

 doubtless reduce the daily sale to a very small 

 fraction. If this arithmetic be correct, it follows 

 that foreign cigars, " real Havannahs,'' must be 

 very rare indeed, and also that the number of 

 workmen employed cannot be less than 7380, in 

 order to make the tremendous supplies required. 

 The statistics of the manufacturing trade in 

 Hamburg confirms ray argument* This manu- 

 facture is the most important branch of trade in 

 Hamburg. It gives employment to more than 

 10,000 persons, for the most part women and 

 children ; and it supplies 150 millions of cigars 

 per annum ! About four millions sterling is the 

 value of the article. A printing-press with a 

 numerous staff is exclusively occupied in printing 

 the labels for the boxes and packets of cigars. 

 The imports at Hamburg from the Havannah 

 and Manilla amount to 18 millions of cigars 

 annually ; which, with its own production, swell 

 the number of the annual trade supplies at 

 Hamburg to the number of 168 millions of cigars. 

 About 153 millions are exported ; the remainder, 

 15 millions, are consumed in Hamburg — giving, 



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