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from Galipoli, in the Neapolitan dominions, Sicily, Spain, 

 Portugal, for manufacturing and machinery purposes ; and 

 the finer table-kinds from Florence, Leghorn, Lucca, Genoa, 

 and the South of France. In 1851, 20,783 tuns, of 252 

 gallons each, were imported. 



Almond Oil is obtained by expression frojn the sweet 

 and bitter Almond {Amygdalus communis, varieties a and j3) . 

 It is a beautiful clear straw-coloured oil, inclining to yellow ; 

 its chief use is in perfumery and for lubricating the machi- 

 nery of clocks, watches, and other small pieces of mecha- 

 nism. It is very rarely imported, being principally ex- 

 pressed in this country. 



Rape Oil is expressed from the seeds of the Rape 

 (Brassica Napus, Nat. Ord. Or ucifem) .— This oil is rather 

 browner and darker than olive oil, but when refined is 

 nearly as limpid ; it is much used for burning in lamps, 

 especially in France. We imported 107,029 quarters of 

 ape- seed, and about 300 tuns of the oil, in 1851, chiefly 

 from France and Germany. 



Seed Oil. — Under this name a large quantity, amount- 

 ing now to nearly 1000 tuns per annum, of a fine odour- 

 less oil, resembling rape-oil, of a sherry-brown colour, is 

 imported into Liverpool from Lisbon. It is expressed 



