Trade of the [sland of Crete. — 238 
- Seventeen okes of cocoons produce one oke (about 
24 Ibs.) of eggs. 
The quality of the silk of this Island is considered equal 
to that of Adrianople. Thesmall manufactory established 
here in 1850 for reeling silk in the Italian way has for 
many years ceased to work. A good crop does not ex- 
ceed 30,000 lbs. 
Public Works.—It is, perhaps, hardly necessary to state 
that railways and telegraphs did not exist on the Island, 
and that even the bare hope of such modern appliances 
being introduced under the present administrative system 
is very distant. The state of the roads and bridges in 
general (if the few now practicable be even deserving the 
appellation) is deplorable, and ought to rouse the serious 
attention of the Government to remedying so crying an evil. 
While the Governor-General, Ismail Pasha, is deserving 
of great credit for the encouragement his Excellency is 
giving to agriculture, distributing, as he has done, thousands 
of young olive and mulberry plants among the peasantry 
gratis, in addition to other benefits conferred on local hor- 
ticulture, the obstructions to the transport of yearly in- 
creasing produce, and to an extended means of internal 
communication, have been sadly overlooked. 
DISTRICT OF CANDIA. 
The chief articles of British manufacture imported to 
the port of Candia were cotton cloths, iron, soda ash, jute 
sacks, Indian rice, pepper, indigo, tin in boxes, alum, 
crockery, &c. These have been mostly conveyed by the 
Austrian Lloyds steamers from Syria, where they lay in 
transit. A quantity of such goods has also been imported 
through Smyrna and Constantinople. 
In addition to the Lloyds boats, a Greek company had 
started a line of steamers in April last, plying between 
Syra and Candia. These having proved tvo large, and 
unable safely to enter the small harbour of Candia, and, 
on the other hand, too costly, were soon afterwards aban- 
doned. 
The total number of all ships which have arrived and 
departed from this port during 1865, exclusive of boats 
carrying on the coast trade, is as follows :— 
Entered —548 vessels, the total value of the cargoes 
being 4121,700. Cleared—s587 vessels, the total value of 
the cargoes being £86,800. 
