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ON THE CULTURE OF THE GROUND-NUT, ETC. 



commerce to supply the place of this little oleaginous nut, which has, 

 for the last twelve years, brought all the "blessings of comfort, healthful 

 occupation, industrious habits, and civilization, in the place of wars, 

 famine and the slave trade of the interior. 



Indigo might, in the opinion of some old residents, take a lead in 

 exports, but I fear not to any extent. The natives understand its culti- 

 vation, growing sufficient to dye their " pangs," or country cloths, but 

 not an ounce is yet exported. 



The following is a correct return of the quantity and value of the 

 ground-nuts exported from the Gambia for the last 24 years. 



EXPORTS OP GROUND-NUTS FROM 1837 TO 1860. 



1837 







Quantity, 

 tons. 

 671 









Value. 



£, 

 8,053 



1838 

 1839 







680J 



882 









8,264 

 11,228 



1840 

 1841 







1,2111 

 2,334 









15,209 

 26 932 



1842 



. 1843 



1844 







2,334 



2,6S0 

 3,426 









29,489 

 32,899 

 44,672 



1845 

 1846 

 .1847 

 1848 

 1849 







4,027 

 5,997 

 8,237 

 8,636 

 4,339i 









51,270 

 73,867 

 98,395 

 102,767 

 51,923 



1850 

 1851 







6,009 

 11,094| 









72,237 

 133,133 



1852 







9,295 









. 153,098 



1853 







11,226 









135,404 



1854 



1855 







9,162 

 . 12,485 









109,846 

 149,714 



1856 

 1857 







10,b74i 

 13,554 









130,496 

 162,650 



1S58 

 1859 

 1860 







15,7^9 

 8,539 

 9,951^ 









188,747 

 68,745 

 94,008 



The average annual export in the ten years from 1850 to 1860 was 



ll,196i tons. 

















Publications "Received. — Pharmaceutical Journal for May. Chemist 

 and Druggist, No. 45. ' Revue du Monde Colonial, Nos. 4, 5, and 6. 

 Technologiste lor April and May. Holmes' Magnite Electric Light as 

 applicable to Lighthouses. Transactions of the Royal Institution, and 

 of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Journal of the Board of Arts 

 and Manufactures, Upper Canada, for March and April. The Stationer. 

 The Paper Trade Review. 



