THE SUPPLY OE RESIN. 103 
the pine in appropriate vessels ; whereas in the other arrondissement 
it is left to drop into pits dug at the base of the tree. 
All persons whom I have consulted as to the quality of Oorsican 
resin concur in asserting that it is equal, if not superior to that of the 
French " Landes " or to American resin. 
The price obtained this year at the port of Marseilles for Corsican 
resin ranged from 55 to 60 francs per 100 kilogrammes. At Leghorn it 
ranged from 55 to 62 francs per 100 kilogrammes. 
The producers of resin in Corsica are, with few exceptions, in needy 
circumstances. I am assured that a capitalist who would tender cash 
for small lots, and who could be relied upon for ready money on their 
delivery at Bastia, Calvi, or Ajaccio, would obtain advantages in price. 
This plan might be carried out through agents and merchants at these 
ports, and the small parcels warehoused until in bulk for shipment. 
Cash advances to the needy producers would not only secure the 
supply, but w^ould go far to stimulate exertion to augment the produce. 
Report by Consul Mark, Marseilles. — In this part of France there is 
no resin available for exportation ; on the contrary, considerable quan- 
tities thereof are imported from Algeria, Corsica, and Greece ; the 
neighbourhood of Bordeaux likewise furnishes a large part of the resin 
required in these southern departments of France. The resin produced 
in this neighbourhood is very limited in quantity, the pine woods being 
more directly valuable for the timber and fuel they afford. The forests 
likewise have been so excessively drained for many years past, that the 
government has recently found it requisite to call the attention of the 
public and the local authorities to the necessity of replanting extensive 
districts which were formerly wooded, and whose present bareness has 
caused long-prevailing droughts. 
Large quantities of resin are used in Marseilles in the manufacture 
of soap, which is most extensively carried on here. The resin imported 
from abroad arrives here in a rough state, very inferior to that received 
from Bordeaux. That produced in this neighbourhood is also of a very 
unsatisfactory description. It is now sold, nevertheless, for treble the 
price demanded before the commencement of the American War. The 
present price, however, is not likely to stimulate any great production 
in this part of France, and as, if necessary, an unlimited supply of resin 
might be drawn from the Landes in the south-west of France, no one 
in this Consular district appears disposed to start an enterprise of this 
nature. 
Report by Consul Lacroix, Nice. — Notwithstanding the rich 
resinous forests which cover the Maritime Alps, and also a very large 
extent of the adjoining Department of the Var, no industry exists in 
this place or its neighbourhood for collecting the resinous juice from the 
different species of trees which form these forests. 
The resins used at Nice are mostly derived from Dax, near Bayonne. 
The resinous forests of the Maritime Alps are formed of two species of 
