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30tti weight, called Poke ; in small pieces of 20 

 to a slab called Foot ; 40 to a slab, calleU Tuong ; 

 80, called Pinchay. With these divisions, they 

 went (o the market, and the ptesent King of Si- 

 am engaged the whole. The quantity of tin dug 

 by the [jresjent inhabitants during the months of 

 Februarv, iMarch, and April, amounts to 4,000 

 China Piculs, in value 63.000 Spanish Dollar?/* 

 Captain James Scott, writing in A, 17S3 

 to the Supreme Government, states the exports 

 of tin to be about 5,000 piculs annually, being 

 the produce of the labor of seven hundred peo- 

 ple, or thereabouts, of both sexes, for a period of 

 four months in the year, bat an indefmitely large 

 supply could be procured, as the resources of the 

 mines only require population sufficient to deve- 

 lope them. 



Colonel Kyd, in addressing the Supreme Go- 

 vernment on the 24 til May 178S, states that^ 

 notwithstanding the depopulation and the devas- 

 tations incident upon the repeated incursio^is of 

 the Siamese and Burmese, whilst these nations 

 were struggling for supremacy. Junk Ceylon was 

 even then capable of furnishing annually 600 tons 

 of tin, the rate of delivery being fift y dollars for 

 every 500!b. 



The tin of Oojong Salang was assayed by Mr. 

 Blake of Omeedpore, whose chemical abilities 

 were unquestionable, and he found that in every 

 hundred lb of ore there were 64^ partstin, whilst 

 that of Pinang yielded only 63^ per cent of ore. 



The small village, of Com ra, romantiGally si- 

 tuated on the declivity of a high mouDtain facing 

 the sea, lies on the S. W. extremity of the island. 



