220 TEMMiNCKS GENERAL VIEW OF THE DUTCH 
In which manner the exports of 1844 exceed those of 1843 by 
f 903,093. There is an increase on the exports of coffee, indigo, 
tobacco, tripang, different articles and bullion, while there is a de¬ 
crease on the arrack, cloth and thread, pepper, sugar and tin. 
The exports, produce, merchandize and specie made on account of 
the Government which are not included in the above comparative 
statement amounted to 
In Produce, 
Merchandize and Bullion, 
Adding the surplus on the priva 
i 
1843. 
1844. 
Increase. 
f 32,278,423 
1,356,036 
le exports, .. 
42,468,435 
1,878,067 
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f 10,189.617 
522,031 
903,093 
It follows that the exports of 1844 exceeded those of 1843 by 
/T 1,614,836 
In 1843 the exports amounted to f 60,347,872 while the imports 
only amounted to/32,370,987, which constitute a surplus of exports 
of about 28 millions of Guilders. 
The same took place iu the year 1844 when the exports amounted 
to / 71,963,708 and the imports to / 36,479,663, the exports thus 
exceeding the imports by 354 millions of Guilders. 
The private exports during the year 1843 amounted to,/26,714* 
413 and the imports to / 22,821,861, thus the exports exceeded the 
imports by / 3,892,552; in 1844 this proportion diminished because 
the exports amounted to/27,617,506 and the imports/23,342.343 
so that the imports were only/2,275,163 smaller than the exports. 
We see from these tables that the agricultural industry, the trade and 
the navigation have taken a development unknown before the intro¬ 
duction of the new system of cultures in 1830. Since this memora¬ 
ble period the single island of Java produces more articles fit for 
exportation than all the other possessions put together. It is im¬ 
possible to form an idea of the increase which these cultures may 
successively offer through the new clearings Which take place, for the 
extent of uncultivated grounds is still very considerable in this island. 
The climate there unites all the advantages which the tropic and the 
temperate zones afford, and the soil of an inexhaustable fertility of¬ 
fers all the guarantees for an increasing prosperity. Agriculture 
will never want arms in this country, seeing that the privileged classes 
reckon it a merit to cultivate the soil, that the adat grants to the cul¬ 
tivator a distinguished rank in Society, and that the princes and the 
