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[ Enclosure. ] 
Victoria knee Parade, Leeds, 
8th January 1891. 
The sample of extract received € the » Right Hon. W. L. Jackson, 
"M.P. et ad esterday, contai 

Total e - - 82:00 per cent. 
Tannin, wi hide powder - 68:30 bir 
Other mat . 28°70 » 
Insoluble - - - «75195 -h 
Moisture è i - - 16:05 » 
100:00 

According to the analyses done by Mr. Hunt at Buslingthorp, 
“bale” gambier contains from 30 to 35 per cent., and ** cube" gam 
from 45 to 50 per cent. tannin. As gambier gives a different tannage 
to other materials, a comparison of the amount of tannin in gambier 
with that in other extracts does not represent comparative values. 
(Signed) Hont AND MACKAY. 

Extract from Article on the Raetown Tannery in a cms to 
Gall's Weekly News Letter, Jamaica, June 13, 1891. 
“ The liquor may be made in various ways. In England, for instance, 
they use oak bark, but in J amaica "Y leaves of the divi divi and the 
roots of the mangrove tree are mixed and used, and this latter tan pickle 
is acknowledged to be superior to eei other kind. The roots and leaves 
used in the Rae town tannery are brought from the Palisadoes by the 
boat load. Before being steeped they are crushed in an old fashioned 
mill, of which one may get an idea by revolving a penny on its edge in 
a saucer. The stone used is an unusually large one and two more like 
it lie half buried in corners of the building. The proportion, in which 
the leaves and roots are mixed is of course not for everyone to know. 
Every business has its secrets and the old foreman of the tann: has 
his like the rest.” 

COLONIAL SECRETARY, JAMAICA, to DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC GARDENS 
` AND PLANTATIONS. 
Sm, st June 1892. 
Wirth reference to "S memorandum of the od February 
and the letter to you from this = No. fsp, of the 18th idem, I am 
his Excellency’s desire, which it is understood was communicated to you 
7 the Secretary of the Exhibition peer issioners. 
e, &c. 
iu)" "Neate imay 
., W. Fawcett, Esq, F.L.S. Poey RM ^ 
