88 



TEA. 



countries from tlie tourtcen treaty ports of Cliina, in piculs of 

 133 lbs. : 



Year. 



Black. 



Green. 



Brick. 



loDO 







ZJ7,0 ill 







175,752 



14,307 



1865 



967,025 



215,680 



1866 



947,063 



189,790 



18,504 



1867 



1,042,229 



223,434 



65,277 

 53,123 



1868 



1,191,497 



220,002 



1869 



1,214,631 



230,945 



73.521 



1870 



1,087,121 



227,481 



62,896 



1871 



1,362,634 



232,617 



83,790 



1872 



1,420,170 



256,464 

 260,440 



96.994 



1873 



1.264,651 



106,875 



These figures show an export of about 236,000,000 lbs. 



Besides the brick teas forwarded ma Tientsin and Kiachta to Siberia 

 and Eussia, considerable quantities are sent from Hankow and vicinity 

 up the Han river to Fan-cheng, where overland carriage is resorted 

 to. No figures are available for the years previous to 1871, but in 

 1871, 111,062 piculs, and in 1872, 100,920 piculs, were thus for- 

 warded to Siberia and Mongolia. 



From the port of Shanghai the following were the exports of tea in 

 1871, in piculs of 133 lbs. : 



Kinds. 



To Foreign 

 Countries. 



To Chinese 

 Ports. 



Total. 



Black 



Dust 



Brick 



435,182 

 220,855 

 146 

 456 

 387 

 1,759 

 2,415 



12,622 

 334 

 692 

 74 

 71,680 

 11 

 2 



447,804 

 221,189 

 838 

 530 

 72,067 

 1,770 

 2,417 



Total .. .. .. 



661,200 



85,415 



746,615 





The countries to which the shipments were made in 1871 were as 

 follows, in piculs : 



To- 



Black. 



Green. 



F Total. 



British America 



416,825 

 300 

 497 

 3 



362 

 26 

 2,066 

 14,515 

 382 

 206 



57,393 

 3,747 

 3,910 

 2 



i'm 



474,218 

 4,047 

 4,407 

 5 



362 

 5,043 

 2,066 

 165,252 

 382 

 255 



United States of America 



150',737 

 **49 



Total to Foreign countries 

 „ Chinese ports 



435,182 

 12,622 



220,855 

 333 



656,037 

 12,955 



Total 



447,804 



221,188 



668,992 



