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MOCHA. 
From the foregoing calculations we learn the following very 
important facts, That the Mocha coffee, which the East India Com- 
pany brings into the English market for sale, costs £'iO. 3s. 8d. per 
cwt. ; that the Americans do actually take it to America, where 
it costs them only £6. 18s. Qd. per cwt. ; and that they are there- 
fore enabled greatly to undersell the East India Comi^any in the 
markets of the Mediterranean, where the actual consumption is: 
but that it may be brought direct to England, in British vessels, 
and only cost £6. I8s. lOd. per cwt ; which being only one penny 
per cwt. more than it costs in America, it is evident, that it might 
be re-sold by the British in the Mediterranean, at a less price than 
it can be by the Americans, and consequently that the trade might 
be completely recovered out of their hands, were it not for the in- 
superable impediment of the Red Sea being within the charter of 
the East India Company. 
It may also be considered as worthy of remark, that, with respect 
to the produce of Arabia, the discovery of the passage round the 
Cape of Good Hope seems to have been of but little use ; since the 
articles, according to the present system of trade, as carried on by 
the East India Company, can be delivered equally cheap at Alex- 
andria by the old route. 
Independently of coffee, the export trade of Mocha is very con- 
siderable in Gum Arabic, Myrrh, and Frankincense ; which is im- 
ported from the opposite coast of Africa, but chiefly from Berbera, 
without the Straits, where a great fair is annually held, which begins 
in October, and continues until April. The first caravan is always 
the largest. It brings down of gum arabic about fifteen thousand 
bahar, each S^Olbs : also all the myrrh that is consumed, about two 
