Jan.] 



AERIAL EXCURSION. 



475 



January 23c?. — On Sunday, the 23d, I accompanied a small party 

 of gentlemen, one of whom was Doctor Almador, to the most elevated 

 part of the island, about six miles to the west of the town, where 

 we went for the purpose of breathing the cool air, and gazing on pros- 

 pects of unrivalled beauty and grandeur. The excursion was thought 

 to be of too laborious a nature for the participatioi of the more fragile 

 sex ; for though poets have made angels of them all, they forgot to 

 add one very important appendage, viz. the wings, without which 

 ladies could hardly attain the aerial summit to which we were bound. 

 But my wife was a heroine, and with her friend Miss Almador, insisted 

 on accompanying us. 



The road, or rather pathway, to this eminence is quite narrow, 

 being not more than ten or twelve feet in width, and must have been 

 cut with almost incredible labour, through a forest of gigantic trees, 

 the umbrageous foliage of which, uniting above, screens it from the 

 fervid rays of a tropical sun, and veils it in a cool, pensive, contem- 

 plative gloom. The birds carolled sweetly in the branches above our 

 heads. We were well mounted ; and though some parts of this 



EASTERN ARTICLES. From 



Tin, Straits, per picul $14£ 



Tobacco, Java, 40 baskets 200 



China, per picul 19J 



Tortoise-shell, " 1000" 



Turmeric, " 2i£ 



WESTERN ARTICLES. 



Ale, Hodgson, per hogshead 40 



Anchors and grapnels, per picul. . . 11 



Bottles, English, per 100 4 



Books, &c — 



Canvass, per bolt 10 



Copper nails and sheathing, per picul 40 



Cordage, per picul 12 



Cotton, " 11 



Cotton twist, No. 16 to 36, per picul 50 



No. 38 to 70, per picul 80 



No. 40 to 80, " 86 



Earthenware 



Flints, per picul 1} 



Glassware 



Gunpowder, canister, per lOOlbs. . . 30 



Hardware, assorted 



Iron, Swedish, per picul 5£ 



English, " 3i 



nails, " 8 



Lead, pig, " 54 



sheet, " 6 



Oilman's stores, " — 



Patent shot, per bag 3 



Paints, black — 



green — 



white lead — 



Provisions, beef, per tierce 33 



pork, per barrel 28 



biscuit, per picul 64 



flour, " 8 



Piece goods, Madapolams, 25 yds. by 



32 in., per piece 2A 



To 



$15 

 250 

 22 

 1600 

 3 



45 

 14 



12 

 42 

 14 

 13 

 55 



2 

 40 



6 



34 

 10 

 6 

 7 



34 



35 

 30 



7 



9 



H 



To 



WESTERN ARTICLES. From 



Piece goods, imitation Irish, 25 yds. 



by 36 in., per piece $24 $3 



long cloths, 38 to 40 yds. by 34 



to 36 in., per piece 7 



' 38 to 40 yds. by 38 to 40 in., 7 



" by 44 in 7 



" bv 50 in. ) 0 



" by 55 in. \ "" y 



" by 60 in 10 



prints, 7-8, light grounds, single 



colours, per piece. 3 



9-8, do. do 3J 



7-8, dark do 3 



9-8, do. do 4$ 



7-8 and 9-8, two colours Si£ 



9-8,Turkey redground,24yds. 12 



cambric, 12yds. by 40in.,perpc. 1| 



12 yds. by 42 in 2 



" by 45 in 2 



jaconet, 20 yds. by 44 to 46 in . . . 2 

 handkerchiefs, imitation Batick, 



double, per corge 6 



Pulicat, " 3 



Rosin, per barrel 5 



Spelter, per picul 5 



Steel, Swedish, per picul 9 



English, " — 



Tar, Stockholm, per barrel 6 



Woollens, long ells, per piece 10 



camlets, per piece 32 



ladies' cloth, per yard 2 



Wines and spirits, Sherry, per doz. 6 



Madeira, per dozen 7 



port, " 8 



claret, French, per dozen 4 



English, per dozen 10 



brandy, per gallon 1 



rum, " — 



gin, " 4| 4| 



7| 



8 



Q 



1* 



14 



a 



34 



H 



6 

 14 

 2 

 2* 

 2§ 

 7 



8 

 6 

 6 

 54 

 _94 



7 

 11 



35 



2| 

 12 

 10 

 12 



9 

 12 



14 



In compiling the table on the following page, which is intended to be useful to mercantile men, 

 and to throw some additional light upon the trade to the eastern world, I have made use of Hamil- 

 ton's East India Gazetteer, Capt. Horsburgh's Directory, Singapore Chronicle, British Parliament- 

 ary Papers relating to the Finances of India and Trade to India and China in 1829 and 1830, 

 Reports of the Lords' and Commons' Committees of 1830, Kelly's Cambist, Milburn's Oriental 

 Commerce, Canton Register, 1830 and 1831 ; the perusal of which, reduced to English weights 

 and money, will give the reader a tolerable notion of the extent, variety, and prices of the Canton 

 market. Articles not the produce of China, but brought there by the junks en entrepdt, are marked 

 with an asterisk. 



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