VIEW OF THE STATE OF AO III CV ETlAlE TK THE BRITISH 
Whilst the records of the same office exhibit the following subse¬ 
quent reports of exports, viz., 
1846 from 1st July to 31st Dec. IB,000 piculs Sugar, 10,010 gals. Rum 
1847 from 1st July to 30th June 28,500 piculs Sugar, 13,000 gals. Rum 
and from 1st July to 31st Dec. the exports were estimated to be 
35,200 piculs Sugar 
59,000 gals. Rum. 
In the course of a very few years the exports will probably rise to 
about 100,000 piculs, when, as all the territory under the jurisdic¬ 
tion of the East India Company will have been taken up and under 
cultivation, no more ground will be available unless a further cession 
of territory should be asked for by the Indian-Government and ceded 
to them bv the chiefs of the adjoining native states. 
In the meanwhile nutmeg, cocoanut and rice cultivation have been 
on the increase on the.island of Ihnang and m the 1 rovmi.e, which,- 
with the returns of the cane lands, have made of George Town, so le- 
Gently wearing the internal signs of decay, a bustling and flourishing 
mart. 
The natural fertility of the soil in Province Wellesley, which ge¬ 
nerally is level and little raised above the adjacent sea, assisted by 
abundance of fish, bat-guano and other manures*,of which the Chi¬ 
nese avail largely, cause large returns from the land, amounting in 
some instances to three tons of raw sugar or gour per acre. I he 
cultivation of the cane is generally carried on by Chinese who yearly 
emigrate in large numbers, from Amoy chiefly, and who let them¬ 
selves out for one year to Europeans or to Chinese cane growers, at 
from three to four Spanish Dollars per month, they finding them¬ 
selves in food, clothes &c. The Chinese, for the most part, manu¬ 
facture a coarse quality of sugar, called Jaggery, but they generally 
prefer to contract with Europeans who have mills and apparatus for 
manufacturing sugar and rum, to deliver to them their canes at 
from one and a quarter to one and a half Spanish Dollars per picul 
of the gour made therefrom. As planted canes are from twelve to 
fourteen months before they are ripe and ratoons from ten to eleven 
in the Straits, the planter gathers two full crops in two years. Ma¬ 
ny labourers come also from the Madras side of India, who let thciu- 
