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GUM MYRRH. 
2000 bahars of 320lb. each at 22 dollars per bahar 44000 
dollars at 4^. 6^. - - - £-9900 0 0 
Expenses of unpacking, repacking, sorting, and delivery 
on board, 4 per cent. - - - ^9^ 0 0 
Agency 5 per cent. - ^ - - - 49-5 0 0 
Duties to the Sultaun of Aden, 3 per cent. - 297 0 0 
Cost on board at Aden £.11,088 0 0 
6,000 0 0 
Freight on 400 tons measurement, each bahar measuring 
8 cubic feet, at 151. per ton 
Insurance on 12,320/. at 10 per cent. - - 1,232 0 0 
Policy duty on 12,400 at ^ per cent. - - 31 0 0 
Interest on 11,088/. cost on board for 9 months, at 5 per 
cent. - - - - - 415 16 0 
Duty on 640,000 lbs. at Sd. per lb. 27| per ct. and 8^. 3d, 
per cent. - - - - ^ 28,977 15 6 
Landing charges, housing, &c. &c. 1 per cent - 110 17 6 
Cost in the warehouse at London ^ £, 47,855 9 0 
Said 2000 bahars, or 5,714 cwt. sold at 25/. 
per cwt. would produce 142,850, or £.71 8 6 per bahar 
Whereas the cost is only - - 23 18 6 per bahar. 
Which leaves an apparent profit of £. 47 10 0 per bahar. 
Myrrh is frequently sold at 40/. per cwt, and I was informed by a 
most respectable broker that the 2000 bahars would find a market at 
that price if there were no competition ; which would be impossible, as 
the above quantity is all that is produced. I have taken the price of 
September 1808. 
