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SPICES 
CHAP, 
The great demand for this perfume latterly in the markets 
of Europe has brought large profits to the planters of it, and 
the plantations have multiplied on all sides to such a degree 
that the next crop will double that exported this year, which 
amounted to 24,854 kilos, and the quantity which will appear 
in the market towards the month of August next is calculated 
at about 40,000 kilos. Unless circumstances arise which 
are at present unforeseen, the colony can produce in two or 
three years from 50,000 to 60,000 kilos of vanilla. I learn that 
the cultivation is also extensively carried on in Madagascar and 
Mauritius, and it is feared by persons interested that by this 
extended cultivation prices will go down. 
