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although not remote from the habitations of man, 
or manured with dried anchovies and mustard- 
seed oil. I may perhaps be pardoned for referring 
those interested in the matter to my ‘Three 
Years’ Wanderings in China’ and ‘ Journey to the 
Tea Countries,’ where the cultivation and manu- 
facture of tea have been fully described from per- 
sonal observation. 
From a return made out by Consul Yyse and 
presented to Parliament, it appears that the value 
of the raw silk and silk manufactures exported 
from Kanagawa during the year ending the 31st 
December, 1860, was 548,630/. 135. Ad. The 
value of tea exported during the same period was 
64,260/. I65. 8 d. The total value of the exports 
from this port in 1860 amounted to 865,200/., the 
principal articles besides silk and tea being copper, 
oil, and seeds, dried fish, seaweed, medicine, vege- 
table wax, and lacquer-ware. 
One of the merchants, in a letter to H. B. 
Majesty’s Consul, dated August 8th, 1861, re- 
marks, “ In point of value the business transacted 
at this port during the first six months of 1861 
far exceeds what was transacted during the same 
period of 1860. * * * To show you that 
there has been a rapid development of the export 
trade, I need only state that from July, 1859, to 
July, 1860, the export of silk was about 5000 
bales; from July, 1860, to July, 1861, it was 
12,000 bales. Of tea, from July, 1859, to July, 
1860, there are no statistics, but the export was a 
