THE SUPPLY OF RESIN. 109 
is at this moment a stock on hand of about 250,000 quintals, and I have 
been informed by persons possessing practical knowledge of the subject, 
that the forests within a radius of thirty-five miles from the capital are 
capable of producing 200 quintals of resin per month. 
With respect to quality, I have merely to say that the resin produced 
in this district, and sold in the shops of Mexico, is of a dark colour, and 
may safely be termed an inferior class of produce ; susceptible, however, 
of improvement by refining. 
Dolls, c. 
Cost. — The wholesale price of resin delivered in this 
city is, per quintal 87 
Freight to Vera Cruz, per quintal .... 3 
Ditto from Vera Cruz to England, per quintal . 25 
Packing, shipping, and other charges, 5 per cent . 4 
Making in all, per Mexican quintal 4 16 
Consequently, 1 cwt. of resin, the produce of the forests of this dis- 
trict, would cost, at the exchange of 48d. per dollar, 18s. 4d., placed in 
any port of the United Kingdom. 
The excessive cost of transport will I imagine, render this produce of 
the table-land of Mexico unavailable for English manufacturers. 
Peksia. — Report by Consul- General Abbott, Tabreez. — Eesin is not 
an article produced in this province, nor have I ever heard of it as a 
production of Persia, which, with the exception of the strip of country 
lying on the western and southern shore of the Caspian, which is densely 
clothed with forest, and certain districts in the interior possessing a low 
growth of wood, is a vast tract of bare mountain, plain, and desert. 
Turpentine, however, which is employed for some of the purposes to 
which resin is applied, is produced in Koordistan, and is brought here 
from thence in some quantity. It is the production of a tree of close, 
hard grain, and of small growth. I am assured that about 1,000 mule 
loads, or about 2,600 cwt., of this article, of the several qualities, may 
be purchased here in the course of the year. The prices at Tabreez are 
at present 3^-yth to -|-^th kesans per maun of 640 misculs, which would 
be equal, at the present exchange of kesans 21^-fths per 1?., severally to 
about 48s., 51s. 3d., and 56s. per cwt. 
The carriage from hence by camels to Erzeroum, and thence by 
mules to the sea cost at Trebizond, would amount to about 35 kesans 
per load, or about 12s. per cwt. ; and there would be five per cent, cus- 
toms duty here and 3 per cent, transit duty in Turkey to pay, besides 
minor expenses of packing, &c, which would probably be covered by 2 
per cent, more on the purchase price. 
Peru. — Report by Mr. Jerni?igham, Lima. — I find from a conversa- 
tion which I have had with a gentleman here, Mr. Nation, who is well 
versed in botany, &c, that there are two trees in Peru, namely, the 
" guiacum " and" copal," from which resin, if required, could be produced 
in great quantities. 
