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produced being insufficient to meet the denianti: The culti- 

 vation of coffee is rapidly increasing in St. Paulo, and is 

 promoted by the railroad extending from Santos to Juii- 

 diahy. The United States usually takes one-half of the 

 crop of Brazil coffee. 



The following figures give the average quantity of coffee 

 exported from the empire of Brazil during the undermen- 

 tioned years, comprising a period previous and subsequent 

 to the abolition of the slave trade in 1851, and showing a 

 steady increase in the export since 1840 : 



Annual average. 



arrobas. 

 1840-43 .... 5,507,367 



1843-46 6,519,380 



1846-49 .... 9,301,967 



1849-52 8,542,965 



1852-55 .... 10,549,847 



1855-58 11,465,719 



1858-61 .... 10,501,665 



The yearly shipments from Eio in the last four years have 

 been as follows ; 



bags. 



1859 2,064,837 



1860 2,150,188 



1861 2,085,974 



1862 1,477,904 



besides 200,000 to 300,000 bags annually from Santos. The 

 bags contain rather more than six arrobas, or one cwt. and a 

 half. 



COSTA EICA. The quality of this coffee is recognised as 

 excellent. In order to place it in a proper degree of esti- 

 mation in foreign markets, some proprietors of plantations 

 have not omitted getting it chemically analysed in Europe j 



