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sumption in moist years would amount to some 2,000 tons 000,000 
kilograms), yet when the authorities offered to supply growers in the first- 
From the south-eastern distriets I have as yet failed to ascertain 
quantity Biscay also, Bilbao would probably be the port of entry, and 
the amount of Sulphate of Copper imported there last year from the 
United Kingdom was about 500 tons. | 
In the neighbourhood of Lenares there is no disease, neither is there 
tion has been of an experimental nature. Indeed, I hear from there that 
ave e. 
(Signed) WILLIAM A, C. BARRINGTON. 
The Marquess of Salisbury, K.G., 
&c. &c. &c. 
CLXVI.—CULTURAL INDUSTRIES IN WEST AFRICA. 
Our possessions on the West Coast of Africa, consisting of the Gambia, 
Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, and Lagos, occupy, for the most part, narrow 
strips of country parallel to the sea coast, and extend to no great distance 
the princi ivers. ) 
energies to the development of trade in such commodities as are brought 
to them from the interior. These commodities, with the exception of - 
some gold and ivory, are mainly the natural products of the forest, such — 
oubleof olan - — 
and conveying them to the coast. There are, it is true, a few native ee 
nut, cotton, and the raising of corn, yams, and vegetables. The value 
and extent of these would appear at present to be very small. Owing, 
