100 THE SUPPLY OF RESIN. 
2nd. Ordinary ditto. 
3rd. Light-coloured pitch. 
4th. Black pitch. 
The above may again be subdivided into the undermentioned 
classes and denominations, according to the colour and the care used in 
the fabrication of the primary materials : — 
Hugues' colophony, No. 2. 
Ordinary ditto, No. 2. 
Screened light-coloured pitch. 
Ordinary ditto ditto. 
Half light-coloured ditto. 
The prices at present are — for essence of turpentine, 150 francs, (6l.) 
the 100 kilogrammes ; 
Hugues* colophony, 78 to 82 francs (31. 2s. 4d. to 3l 5s. 7d.) per 
ditto. 
Ordinary colophony, 65 to 70 francs (21. 12s. to 21. 16s.) per ditto ; 
Light-coloured pitch, 60 to 64 francs (21. 8s. to 21. lis. 2d.) per ditto ; 
Black pitch, 54 to 56 francs (21. 3s. 2d. to 21. 4s. 9d.) per ditto j 
Report by Acting- Consul Hiver, Bordeaux.— The average quantity 
of " gemme " or resinous matter produced annually, of late, in these de- 
partments, amounts to 50,000,000 kilogrammes, equal to 49,261 tons 
English — viz., 
Kilog. Tons. 
One-third in the " Gironde " . . 16,666,666 == 16,420 
Two-thirds in the "Landes" . . 33,333,334 38,841 
50,000,000 49,261 
" Gemme," or natural resinous matter, is but seldom exported in its 
primitive state ; it is generally distilled in order first to obtain oil or 
spirits of turpentine, and then it is submitted to further process, the 
result of which gives the different sorts of resin. 
The first operation on 50,000,000 kilogrammes of "gemme " (49,261 
tons) gives about 8,000,000 kilogrammes (7,882 tons) of oil. 
The remaining 34,500,000 kilogrammes of matter (33,990 tons), about 
15 per cent, being lost by evaporation in the manufacturing of oil, gives 
three sorts of resin in equal proportions. 
Kilog. Tons. 
One-third first sort . . . 11,500,000 = 11,330 
One-third light .... 11,500,000 11,330 
One- third brown .... 11,500,000 11,330 
34,500,000 33,990 
Value (Average Prices). 
" Gemme " or raw Resinous matter. 
50,000,000 kilogrammes, or 49,261 tons, at 65 francs the 100 
kilogrammes (2?. 12s. per 221 lbs.,) = 32,500,000 francs, 
or 1,300,000/. 
