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SPICES AND FRAGRANT WOODS. 



to 18,037. From the island of Hayti 8,769 Ibs. of ginger were 

 exported in 1835, and 15,509 Ibs. in 1836. 39 packages of ginger 

 were shipped from Barbados in 1851. 



In Maranham and one or two other provinces of Brazil, ginger 

 of an excellent quality is grown, and a good deal is exported. It 

 was very early an article of culture in South America. According 

 to Acosta, it was brought to America by one Francisco de Mendoza, 

 from Malabar, and so rapidly did its cultivation spread, that as 

 far back as 1547, 22,053 cwt. were shipped to Europe. Southey, 

 in his " History of Brazil " (vol. i., p. 320), says, " Ginger had been 

 brought from the island of St. Thomas, and throve so well that in 

 the year 1573, 4,000 arrobas of 25 Ibs. each were cured ; it was 

 better than what came from India, though the art of drying it 

 was not so well understood. Great use was made of this root in 

 preserves, but it was prohibited, as interfering with the Indian 

 trade in that wretched species of policy which regards immediate 

 revenue as its main object." 



Ginger was worth in the London market 25s. to 60s. the cwt. 

 in bond ; middling and fine qualities, 80s. to 160s. The duty is 

 6s. per cwt. 



Amount of imports of ginger into the United Kingdom, with 

 the quantities entered for home consumption : 



West India Entered for 

 ginger. home consumption 



East India Entered for 



ginger. home consumption. 



cwts. 

 849 

 2,508 

 10,049 

 10,004 

 4,489 

 13,589 

 23,876 

 25,649 

 29,624 

 9,719 

 5,292 

 3,680 

 4,106 

 bags. 

 5,101 

 8,165 



cwts. 

 79 



213 

 1,099 

 1,638 

 1,647 

 3,524 

 3,386 

 1,431 



914 

 1,668 

 1,177 

 1,956 

 3,254 

 bags. 

 6,964 

 7,938 



Retained for 



Total ginger imported. home consumption, 



cwts. cwts. 



1846 24,370 15,937 



1846 . 20,010 15,163 



1847 12,995 9,744 



1848 

 1849 

 1850 

 1861 

 1852 



13,748 10,464 



28,015 12,880 



33,953 16,543 



35,678 19,855 



20,297 18,691 



GALANGALE BOOT is a good deal used ia China, and forms an 

 article of commerce^ fetching in the London market 12s. to 16s. 



