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is considerable. It is not easy, one would suppose, to place 
much ornament about a door-mat, without interfering with its 
utility. But Mr. Treloar has succeeded in producing, from a 
variety of shades of colour, a very ornamental door-mat, having 
a crown worked in the centre. There are a great number of 
small articles, such as table-mats, fancy baskets, &c., all made 
of the same useful material. But the greatest novelties yet 
produced from Cocoa-nut fibre are the bonnets and hats shown 
by this exhibitor. These are of a bright cinnamon colour, and 
attract considerable notice on account of the ingenuity displayed 
in their fabrication.” The Ejoo fibre might well be intermixed 
with that of the Cocoa-nut for some of the above purposes. 
To give some idea of the importance of the Cocoa-nut Palm, 
we may conclude with the following table of the value of the 
Imports of Coir and Coir rope into the three Presidencies for 
three years; for which I am indebted to the tables of the 
Statistical Department of the India House. 
In Year 1847-48. In Year 1848-49. In Year 1849-50. 
Coir and Coir Rope 
imported into Foreign. | India. Foreign. India. | Foreign. | India. 
Calcutta . Rs.| 27,438 | 85,780 | 21,615 | 55,999 | 21,673 | 65,261 
Madras : | 45,987 | 15,598 | 57,323 | 17,309 | 44,711 | 23,900 
Bombay 5 : 873 | 76,571 333 | 116,338 1,618 | 143,210 
Subjoined is a tabular view of the Exports and Imports of 
the different products of the Cocoa-nut, for the year 1850-51, in 
order to show the extensive influence of the plant. This must 
not be estimated simply according to the value of money in 
Europe but in India, and the tree viewed as the source of employ- 
ment and of comfort to great numbers of the people of the East. 
But it is obvious that these Exports and Imports give but a 
small idea of the usefulness of the plant to the people where 
it is indigenous, as they find a use for every part of it. 
In the following table, a few trifling entries appear, and also 
some imports from places from whence we should not expect 
them ; but this is owing to ships’ stores being sometimes landed 
and sold, instead of being used on board of ship. In some 
cases the value only is given, but generally both quantity and 
value, in the official Reports published in India. It is from 
these that the following facts have been taken : 
