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articles paid in kind, was 1,530,000 ticals, or 
191,250/. In the last year of this period, or 
1822, the duty paid on cotton goods amounted to 
14,600 pieces; and in broad cloth, of which very 
little was previously imported, to 280 pieces, the 
first valued at ten ticals each, and the last at one 
hundred and twenty. The duty paid in specie 
was 46,000 ticals, and consequently the whole 
import trade would amount to 2,256,000 ticals, 
or 282,000/. which shows, in the short period 
of twelve years, an extension of between five 
and six hundred per cent.; a remarkable increase 
under a rude government, by which commerce is 
not protected but oppressed, and which may, for 
the most part, be traced to the influence of the 
freedom introduced into the intercourse between 
Great Britain and India; in a word, to the be¬ 
neficial influence of British enterprise and capital. 
If to the statement now given be added the other 
articles paying duty in kind, the imports of Ran¬ 
goon will certainly not be over-rated at 300,000/. 
a-year, and the exports, whether in produce or 
specie, being taken at the same amount, the whole 
trade will be 600,000/. a-year. 
My opportunities and information will not al¬ 
low me to give any thing beyond a very brief 
sketch of the useful natural products of the Bur¬ 
mese dominions. In the Mineral kingdom there 
exist, limestone and marble, gems, noble serpen¬ 
tine, iron, gold, silver, copper, tin, lead, antimony, 
