114 THE SUPPLY OF RESIN. 
except in regulating the rights of parties by personal title or licence as 
renters, the trade is under no restriction, and the authorities profess their 
readiness to facilitate its extension. There are three sorts, the two 
inferior respectively worth 25 and 40 per cent, less than the best, which 
is good quality, costing 2 piastres the oke, with fth piastre more of car- 
riage to the coast, in all 112 piastres, or 20s, 8d. the cwt. delivered there 
(exchange 112 piastres per IL sterling). An extra demand might of 
course raise the price, and contracts must be made in advance ; best from 
March. 
During the fine season it may be shipped from the open roadstead of 
Mundania ; l>ut Ghio or Ghemlex, at the bottom of the gulf, is the safe 
accessible port at all times. Vessels freighted on purpose might load the 
article direct for England, or it might be forwarded across to Constan- 
tinople by the station steamers, or small craft, for transhipment from 
thence to its destination, as most convenient. The export duty from 
March 1865 will be 5 per cent., or about 5^d. per cwt., on the white 
or best resin, with, the annual reduction of 1 per cent, till it falls to that. 
Report by Consul Callander, Dardanelles. — No resin had been ex- 
ported from this Consular district previous to the present year (1864). 
The quantity expected to be exported up to the end of the year is esti- 
mated at 120 tons. 
This resin is collected by the Yourouk tribes,, but from the scarcity of 
labour and the difficulty of conveyance to the port of shipment the sup- 
ply is likely to remain limited ; otherwise it is capable of being increased 
to 800 or 1,000 tons and upwards a-year. The quality of the resin is 
not very good ; it is mixed with pieces of bark arid adulterated with 
water. The price, free on board, has fluctuated from bl. to 12Z. a ton. 
Rate of freight to Great Britain about 30s, a ton. 
Report, by Consul Stuart, Janina. — The quantity of resin annually 
collected in Epirus is very limited, but it might be increased to a con- 
siderable amount. From the mountain forrests in the Arta districts 
about 800 lbs. weight is obtained every year, all of which is used in the 
country, as it has heretofore been in no demand for exportation. But I 
have been assured that under the stimulus of a brisk foreign demand 
the same forests could be made to yield as much as 50,000 lbs. Inclosed 
are two specimens of this Arta resin, from which its quality may be 
judged ; that marked No. J. sells in the country at 5cl. per lb., No. 2 
at 4d. 
At present but a very imperfect idea can be formed of the quantiy of 
resin that might be obtained in this country, as, in the absence of profit- 
able demand, this valuable article is but little sought after ; but it may 
be fairly presumed that considerable supplies of it are left to waste in 
the pine forests which abound in most of the mountain districts of 
Epirus. 
Report by Consul Calvert, Monastir. — The only locality producing 
resin in this Consular district is the pine-forest of Poretch, situated ':: 
