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5. “Chin-t‘uan,” made in balls for the Ku-tsung and Thibetan market. 
This is made of the coarsest yellow leaves picked out from other varieties, 
with a shallow coating of ** so-pien " on the ouside of the ball (specimen 
sent,to India). 
The four first descriptions are packed in a “ t‘ung,” or packet, of 
seven cakes hich therefore weighs 63 ozs., or with the covering of 
i i amboo 
as follow 
No. 2, w ‘Tsi ch‘a,” 14 taels per 100 catties; No. 3, “ ping-lao," 12 
taels per 100 catties; No. 5, “chin-t‘uan,” 9 taels per 100 catties. 
3 t. 5 m. per 100 catties. Duty at Ssti-mao is 7 mace, and li-kin 1 tael 
to 1 t. 2 m. per 100 catties according to qualit 
The estimates of the amount of tea turned out during the year varied 
from 12,000 to 24,000 [?] loads. There are two roads by which the 
tea comes, one from I-bang Rage sk Ssii-mao, and the other from I-wu 
through Méngensi to Mo-hei. There are /i-hin stations both at Ssü-mao 
and Méng.nai. The most reliable je te was given me a7 the li-kin 
sue at Ssü-mao, who s that Ssii-mao sent 3, 4,000 loads 
in the Mim and the hills WELT 12,000, making in all a SDi of 
about 15,000 loads, about half of Nos. 2 and 4, and half of Nos. 3 and 5. 
Taking 12 pps as the average price per lcad, the gross value of the 
trade here during 1885 would have been about 180,000 taels, or 
45,0007. 
The supply was said to depend on the demand from Yün-nan Fu, 
which seems to be the entrepőt of the trade. The production had been 
wines greater in 1884. The trade had suffered greatly from the rebellion, 
when the trees were cut down and burn nt, and the people who used to 
buy the tea were killed. ‘The demand from Ssü-ch'uan had wae 
and had partly made up, but prices had recently been very bad inc 
sequence of the high price of food in that province, which left the 
people little to spend on good tea. 
CIII.— AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRIES AT THE 
| GAMBIA. 
The British Settlement on the Gambia according to the Colonial 
Office List consists of the Island of St. Mary, British Combo, Albreda, 
the Ceded Mile, and McCarthy’s Island, situated between the falls of 
rraconda And Bathurst. This island forms the line of demarcation 
settlement is about 69 square miles. The principal productions of the 
settlement and of the adjoining districts are ground nuts, hides, beeswax, 
rice, cotton, maize, guinea corn, palm kernels, india-rubber, cola nuts, 
and native * pagns” or country cloths. With the exception of the 
weaving of cotton into native cloths called pagns, the — a = 
— oils, boat-building, and some brick-making, t 
manufacturing industries in the country. ‘lhe ground nut is is dia Mlle 
