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tide; but their depopulation has greatly reduced the 

 quantity. 



Ou the whole it may l>e said, that there is no 

 cultivation which insures the return of produce with 

 * , much certainty as thai of ti e coeoanut tree ; and 

 as Rangoon, the Tenasserim ('oast, and Singapore 

 will, probably, always remain good markets for 

 the raw nut, there appeal's to be every chance of the 

 value of that produce, affording ample remuneration 

 to the planter. 



SUGAR. 



The Sugar-cane is partially cultivated on Penaug, 

 but extensively in Province \Y eilesley, especially in 

 the central and southern portions of it. To these 

 last, the Chinese M ere allured by the richness of the 

 sod, Ihe facility of water eoininunicatioiis and cheap* 

 ness of fire- wood. The plantations there occupy 

 ah »ut nine hundred acres ol land, , and very small 

 portions only of these, are permitted to lie fallow. 



"When price-* are remunerating 1 , clayed sugar is the 

 principal product — otherwise, it coarse Mack sugar is 

 made. Under very favorable prices, the average 

 quantity of clased sugar, manufactured in the sea- 

 son .of from 14 to 1(5 months, may be estimated at 

 eleven thousand pieuls on an average, or about fio-t 

 tons, ami fnnti fun* t.» five thousand pieuls of coarse 

 black sugar. About 10,750 pieuls of clayed sugar, 

 might, if exclusively manufactured, be got from the 

 quantity of sugar-land cleared, and that now lying 

 fallow. When compared with a W est India Island's 

 produce, this quantity is indeed insignificant, yet it is 

 encouraging here, for it is the result of the labor, in 

 a new country, of freemen whose tastes are even 

 luxurious, on a tract of land, w hich, but a tew years 

 ago, was a wild forest. There are about 2,000 

 Chinese collected, as cultivators, or otherw ise, on these 



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