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These countries offer a large market for our own domestic cottons, 
and, if the prices can be maintained, the United States will supply 
the most of the coarser kinds used there. I have it from the best 
authority, that the increase in the consumption of these goods, is now 
double what it was five years ago, and is increasing. 
The article of flour, however, has greatly fallen off: previous to 
1830 there were nearly thirty thousand barrels sold; in the last three 
years, six thousand; and only one thousand in 1841, in consequence 
of Peru being abundantly supplied from Chili. 
FOUNTAIN AT LIMA. 
