7£ 



from the Isles of France and Bourbon, and 

 thirty millions from Arabia and Java, we shall 

 find the whole consumption of Europe * in 

 1817 was not far from one hundred and forty 

 millions of pounds. In the inquiries I made 

 concerning colonial produce in 1810, I fixed on 

 a smaller quantity -f. This enormou^ consump- 

 tion of coffee has not diminished that of tea, the 

 exportation of which from China has augmented 

 more than one fourth in the last fifteen years p 

 Tea could be cultivated as well as coffee in the 

 mountainous parts of the provinces of Caraccas 

 and Cumana. Every climate is there found 

 rising in stages one above another ; and this 

 new culture would succeed there as well as in 

 the southern hemisphere, where the government 

 of Brazil, nobly protecting at the same time 

 industry and religious toleration, suffered at 

 once the introduction of tea, of the Chinese, and 

 of the dogmas of Fo. It is not yet a century 

 since the first coffee-trees were planted at 



* The consumption of France is generally estimated (rather 

 high) at twenty-three millions of pounds. But the population 

 of France is about one sixth of that of all Europe. 



f Essai polit. sur le Mexique, vol. ii, p. 435. 



X The exportation of tea from Canton, from 1804 to 1806, 

 was on a .mean 260,000 pikles, or thirty-one millions of 

 pounds annually. The consumption of Great Britain exceeds 

 twenty millions. See as above, vol. ii, p. 658 ; and Colqu- 

 houn, p. 334 ; Appendix, p. 8, 26 ; 34. 



