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PREFACE. 



with commercial literature, and thorouglily conversant with all colonial 

 products, I have studied to accumulate facts and useful information 

 on the various subjects treated of, so as to make the book a reliable 

 and standard work of reference, useful alike to the planter and pro- 

 ducer, the merchant and broker, as well as to the general public, who 

 are the consumers. 



P. L. SIMMONDS. 



29, Cheapside, London, 

 Ilay, 1877. 



