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SPICES AND TEAaSAKT WOODS. 



to £18,037. From the island of Hayti 8,769 lbs. of ginger were 

 exported in 1835, and 15,509 lbs. in 1836. 39 packages of ginger 

 were sliivped from Barbados in 1851. 



In Maraniiam and one or two other provinces of Brazil, ginger 

 of an excellent quality is grown, and a good deal is exported. It 

 was very early an article of culture in South America. According 

 to Acosta, it was brought to America by one Erancisco de Mendoza, 

 from Malabar, and so rapidly did its cultivation spread, that as 

 far back as 1547, 22,053 cvrt. were shipped to Europe. Southey, 

 in his " History of Brazil " (vol. i., p. 320), says, " Ginger had been 

 brought from the island of St. Thomas, and throve so well that in 

 the year 1573, 4,000 arrobas of 25 lbs. each were cured ; it was 

 better than what came from India, though the art of drying it 

 was not so well understood. Great use was made of this root in 

 preserves, but it was prohibited, as interfering with the Indian 

 trade in that v^Tetched species of policy which regards immediate 

 revenue as its main object." 



Ginger was worth in the London market 25s. to 60s. the cwt, 

 in bond ; middling and fine qualities, 80s. to 160s. The duty is 

 5s. per cwt. 



Amount of imports of ginger into the United Kingdom, with 

 the quantities entered for home consumption : — 



"West India 



Entered for East India 



Entered for 





ginger. 



home consumption. 



gmger. 



home consumption 





cwts. 



cwts. 



cwts. 



CTTtS. 



1831 



3,551 



4,709 



849 



79 



1832 .. 



5,94'/ 



5,795 



2,508 



213 



1833 .. 



6,064 



6,570 



10,049 



1,099 



1834 .. 



9,913 



9,918 



10,004 



1,638 



1835 . . 



8,321 



8,982 



4,489 



1,647 



1836 .. 



10,226 



6,304 



13,589 



3,524 



1837 .. 



10,933 



9,905 



23,876 



3,386 



1838 .. 



13,366 



9,944 



25,649 



1,431 



1839 .. 



8,996 



7,213 



29,624 



914 



1840 . . 



5,381 



7,935 



9,719 



1,568 



1841 .. 



4,446 



5,523 



5,292 



1,177 



1842 .. 



4,671 



5,068 



3,680 



1,956 



1843 . . 



4,013 



6,953 



4,106 



3,254 





casks, &c. 



casks. 



bags. 



bags. 



1844 . . 



4,619 



3,128 



5,101 



6,964 



1845 . . 



6,033 



4,000 



8,165 



7,938 











Eetained for 







Total ginger imported. 



home consiimption. 







cwts. 





cwts. 



1845 





24,370 





15,937 



1846 

 1847 

 1848 

 1849 

 1850 

 1851 

 1852 





20,010 





15,163 





12,995 





9,744 





13,748 





10,454 





28,015 





12,880 





33,953 





16,543 





35,678 





19,855 





20,297 





18,691 



Galangale Eoot is a good deal used in China, and forms an 

 article of commerce, fetching in the London market 12s. to 16s. 



