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supplies, brought forward at Government Sales in Calcutta,
For instance,
vary every year.
quantity of last year
consisted of 52,000 Chests;
whilst that for the current
year
is
of 42,900.
Advertised to consist bheats.
the said period
exportations
of live
During years
the ese
from
this
place, in foreign
bottoms, comprise as follows: To Shanghai which is a
treaty
port, 81,549 bheats, or 85,110 piculs of Opium; to the other treaty-ports
on
the coast
of China, and Formosa, 24,500
chests
or 28,200
piculs; to Canton
1,500 Chests
or 1,780 piculs; to Macao 20,000 chests, or 24,396
piculs; to Manila and Saigon, 100 Chests or 120 piculs; and
10,000 Chests
to California and Australia, or 12,000 piculs, boiled and prepared
after being
here under license from the Colonial Government. Thus the total exportations
aggregate 138,779 chests, or 152,730 piculs of Opium
Deducting
the aforesaid
total of exportations from the