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as of a bright and clean aspect, fine and dry ; and, if protected from the 

 weather, 'will keep without injury throughout the rainy season. The ordi- 

 nary yield of gurpatta from good goor is reckoned as follows : three maunds 

 of good goor yield of— 



First or white gurpatta 

 Inferior or mixed ditto. 

 Syrups or jerunnee 



Molasses 



Loss 



mds. 



srs. 



. 



20 



. 



10 



. 



10 



. 1 



28 



. 



12 



Total, Maunds 



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5th. Dobarah is a quality superior to gurpatta, being a good white, dry, 

 and well crystallised sugar. The process is similar to that of the gurpatta ; 

 but the material used being dullooa instead of khaur, a purer sugar is 

 obtained, which much resembles the crushed refined sugar of the European 

 refiner. 



THE SPOXGE FISHERY OF THE OTTOMAN ARCHIPELAGO. 



The principal article of export from the Ottoman Archipelago is sponge. 

 Within the last few years the number of boats employed in the fishery has 

 increased a third, while the number of men has nearly doubled. Average 

 number of boats employed by each island in the sponge fishery : — 



Islands. 



Formerly. 



Calymnos 120 



Symi 120 



Halki 60 



Castel Rosso 40 



Leros 30 



Stampalia 10 



Telos — 



Cassos — 



Total 380 



In 1858. 

 . 254 

 . 190 

 . 65 

 . 40 

 . 30 

 . 12 



7 



2 



600 



As there are seven men to each boat, the number of men employed now is 

 4,200, against 2,960 formerly. Of the 600 boats employed in 1858, 70 fished 

 on the coasts of Rhodes, 150 on the coasts of Candia, 180 on the coasts 

 of Syria, and 200 on the coasts of Barbary. 



The island of Calymnos is the chief of the sponge fishing islands in the 



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