238 Notes on the Bluer Yang-tse-Kiang . [No. 3, 
province of Kweichow, but of these I am unable to give any in- 
formation. 
The following statistics of the trade of Chungking are from the 
information of a Chinese merchant. 
EXPORTS. 
Raw silk,... 
...per catty, 2.4.4 Taels. 
White insect wax, 
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0.3.1 „ 
Do. before the time of the rebels, 
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0 . 2.8 „ 
Bees’ wax (scarce), ... 
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0.2.5 „ 
Hemp (for grass cloth), 
... 33 
0.0.9 „ 
Medicinal drugs, price unknown. 
Hung-qua (safflower) for dying, price unknown. 
Rhubarb (bad), 
... 
0.1.3 „ 
S'ieh (tin or sp elter) ,.. . 
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0 . 2.8 „ 
Lead (from Yunnan), 
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0 . 1.0 „ 
Salt, 
... 33 
0.0.3 „ 
Sugar, ... 
... 33 
0.0.5 „ 
Tobacco,... 
... 33 
0.0.7 „ 
Copper is brought from Yunnan and 
iron from the district of 
Lan-shwan-hein 300 li to the S.E. 
Coal (best quality) not much exported, 
...per picul, 
300 Cash. 
Silver, ... 
...per tael, 
3,500 „ 
Gold, ... 
... 33 
16.0.0 Taels. 
Rice (said to be little exported),... 
...per picul, 
2.5.0 „ 
The above were given as wholesale prices. 
The freight on silks, drugs, <Scc. from Chung- 
king to Ichang is ... 
„ 1.0.0 
33 
On coarser articles, ... 
„ 0.3.0 
33 
The duty on silk was believed by the informant 
to be, ... 
„ 3.0.0 
99 
Silk embroidery is worked in the town and a coarse silk manu- 
factured. 
The following list is of specimens purchased in Chung-king, and 
their wholesale prices, as given by a Native writer attached to the 
party, are set down 
Opium, ... 
Insect wax, 
S'ieh (tin or spelter) 
opposite each. 
...per tael, 380 Cash. 
...per catty, 400. „ 
... » 390 „ 
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