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1829. MANUFACTURES—EXPORTS—IMPORTS. Q79 
purpose. Of the latter indigo is much used, and it is the general 
colour for the ground-work of the ponchos. 
Frezadas, bordillas, sabanillas, mantillas de lana, blankets 
or rather counterpanes of different textures, are also among the 
manufactures: none of the above are exported, being made 
merely for their own use. 
Cables, hawsers, and rope, they make of a plant, called Quili- 
neja, which is supposed to be the root of a species of Calliaene. 
No wine or spirit is made in the province, but Chicha (a 
very good cyder) is manufactured from apples. The only other 
fruit produced is the ¢ Frutilla, a kind of strawberry. 
The exports must very nearly amount to the value of foreign 
imports, which consist principally of sugar, wine, brandy, salt, 
wearing apparel, and household furniture. The import duty on 
European and North American produce is twenty-seven per 
cent.; from which, however, some articles, such as arms and 
munitions of war, instruments of music, and other things of less 
importance, are exempt. Spirits of all kinds, foreign wines, 
tobacco, tea, and cards, are monopolized by the government, 
and sold at an immense profit. The unauthorized sale of these 
goods is declared illegal, and is punishable by a heavy fine, and 
sequestration of goods. 
The exports, during the year 1828, consisted of wood in 
beams, planks, and boards; hams, wheat, a small quantity of 
dried fish, fire-wood, and brooms,* to the amount of 52,320 
dollars, of which 35,683 dollars were for wood, and 10,887 for 
wheat. These articles were exported in sixteen vessels under 
national, and eight under foreign flags. The exports are said 
to be increasing very much. In the year 1791, Agiieros des- 
cribes the exports of alerse planks (tablones) to Lima, to be 
between fifty and sixty thousand in number ; and some years 
previous to have been ina much greater quantity. The number 
of alerse boards exported, during the last year, was 328,928, 
but of planks only 2,623. 
The island, and neighbouring part of the imain land, produce 
* Potatoes are not mentioned in the report, yet they must have been 
exported iu considerable quantities. 
