THE COCO-NUT PALM. OIL CAKE. 



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This remarkable soap was sufficiently solid ; but it dissolved in 

 hot water with extreme facility. It is called marine soap, because 

 it washes linen with sea water. 



Of the six principal vegetable oils, namely — palm, coco-nut 

 castor, olive, linseed, and rape, the first four are imported in the 

 state of oil only ; the two last chiefly as seed. The proportion in 

 which they were imported is shown in the following tables ; and 

 if to these quantities are added about a million and a half cwt. of 

 tallow, and nearly twenty thousand tuns of whale oil and sper- 

 maceti, they will nearly represent the total quantity of oil im- 

 ported into G-reat Britain, 



IMPORTS IN 1846. 



Palm oil, Olive oil. Castor oil. 



cwts. tuns. cwts. 



Western Africa 475,364 . , 1 . . — 



United States 13,349 . , — . . 290 



Naples and Sicily . . 14 . . 9,661 . . — 



East Indies — . . — . . 6,315 



Canary Islands .... 3,719 ., — — 



Malta — . . 2,237 . . — 



Turkish Empire .. — .. 1,712 .. — 



Tuscany — . . 832 . . 



Spam — . . 753 . . — 



Brazil 525 . . — . . — 



Ionian Islands .... — . . 506 . . — 



Morocco — . . 368 . . — 



Madeira 353 . . — ■ . . — 



Sardinia — . . 333 . . 11 



Miscellaneous 7 .. 471 . . 65 



Total 493,331 . . 16,864 . . 9,681 



IMPORTS IN 1850 



Linseed. Eape seed. 



quarters. quarters. 



Russia . 482,813 . . 3,235 



Sweden 870 . . — 



Norway 268 . . — 



Denmark 37 . . 3,092 



Russia 87,273 . . 645 



Hanse Towns 1,153 . . 2,872 



HoUand.. 7,734 .. 201 



Naples 1,476 . . — 



Austrian Territories . . 40 . . 2,580 



Greece — . . 1,637 



WaUacMa and Moldavia 910 . . 1,280 



Egypt 17,517 . . — 



East Indian Empire . . 26,142 . . 13,126 



Miscellaneous 262 . . 922 



Total 626,495 . . 29,495 



Oil-cake. — It has been observed by Evelyn that one bushel of 

 walnuts will yield fifteen pounds of peeled kernels, and these will 

 produce half that weight of oil, which the sooner it is drawn is 

 the more in quantity, though the drier the nut the better its 

 quality. The cake or marc of the pressing is excellent for fattening 

 hogs and for manure. 



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