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PAPER IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. 



men, has branches throughout Turkey and Egypt, and has European 

 agencies as well. Banking in the southwest Mediterranean states 

 is through Paris. 



Mail service to Constantinople is by train and occupies seventy- 

 two ho.urs or more. There is also a steamship service, occupying a 

 week between Venice and Constantinople and touching at ports of 

 Greece and Asia Minor. There are two lines, each performing this 

 service once a week. There are three weekly services to Alexandria, 

 performing the passage in five or six days. Tripoli and Tunis are 

 reached from Alexandria in two or three days. The fastest mail 

 service to Africa is from Brindisi and Naples in sixty hours, those 

 ports being twenty-four hours from Venice. 



There are no export duties upon any kind of paper or articles 

 manufactured therefrom. 



TRANSPORTATION. 



Transportation in the district of Venetia is effected by railroad, 

 canal, and sea. There are fourteen steamship lines connecting Venice 

 with all parts of the world. It is, of course, out of the question to 

 obtain the charges of these lines for the various articles of the paper 

 industry. It is to be supposed that it rates with what is usual in 

 other ports. The canal service is somewhat irregular, and charges 

 are a matter of contract in each particular case. 



The railroad rates vary according to the amount of merchandise 

 to be transported, special figures being given for shipments sworn to 

 be more than 5 or 6 tons. I append a schedule of rates for goods 

 of small amount, forwarded by slow freight. It will be observed 

 that the rate diminishes each 100 kilometers (62.1376 mile). In 

 calculating the charge, however, one must add to the figure for the 

 first 100 kilometers that for the second 100 kilometers at its own 

 rate, and so on a somewhat involved process. 



Amount per ton and per kilometer for small shipments. 



NOTE. i metric 1011 2,204.6 pounds; i kilometer=o.62i376 mile. 



