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cuU, brings to tlunn the large annual revenue of 

 five hundred and sixty Uxousand rupees. 



h is sutpi^iisg 1^110 i^lace It^ yet lieeik found 

 in tlie EaiBtSeirii Arrhipekig-o from whence Gambir 

 can lie proenred tliat ran at all compete in quality 

 witli that proiiuccd at Kliio. The if^lantl of Liu- 

 gin produces a quality next to that of Rliio ; and 

 it is woi-thy of r«mat%, tSaat Bhte owes its good 

 name to Lingin, as the Gambir, the produce of 

 that island, was not held in any estimation, until 

 Rhio phiiiters (Chinese) went to Lingin to ac- 

 quire the art of mannfacturing it; and they also 

 brought TjviiJi tbf^ tbe Qaatottt i^ixi» fedaai liiafc 

 pte^e to Wim^ wfeer* it vmt tmnd ikdm «nd 

 produce a better extract than at Lingin. A Gam- 

 bir plantation, after it has attained three years' 

 growth, may be considered capable of yielding 

 good exte©t,jxi4wiHe0»6^ if properly 



attended to» for the space of wm.t m ixsiym!^^ 



The Chinese, possessing plantations of Gambir 

 at Singapore, informed me, that twenty thousand 

 peculs were manufactured annually upon the 

 island ; and some quantity of It wts taken away 



ajpe mM lij!llld.i>©d and fifty Gambir plantations 

 npon the island, not including a number of 

 plantations of young trees not yet producing the 

 extract ; tfeere «r!e al«© about one hundred and 



