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been left. As it is when boiled much cheaper than the salt produced in the interim, qui mereever not subject to the

t subject to the gabelle, it finds

at Houghing a ready sale, for salting fiste and for taking it illegally up to Canton.

Nexxt to it the stine tinde is

deserving

our attention. The only produce of Houghing for expertation is granite, aus though a very continptible article, still it employs many hands, a great number

of boats, each about 70 to 100-Tous, and some

capital. There ave seldom less than

m

hundred of the above craft which monthly have this with a full cargo for the interier, and it is considered a profitable trade, becaux instantly in demand, mi

Stinellocks

arc

a

will always fetch a good price in proportion as buildings

pand

are in the

e

of creation.

The fisheries carried on form überdeen stanley,

are in a

a fleusishing amrition,

Can

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and consequently also the trade in Saltfisher which the mass of the people me generally

their Rice. How many son

for seasming

dmaske

beling to these places, hoonever bem asent

when they

but at now

o year

make up the

accents with their partners and ownere, the harbours are full of them. It would be well to inquire into the tonnage issue regular passes to these boats.

and

some months past, small in -vessels have been leaving out for Hainan, Tein pak and the West beast of Kwaingting province in general. They take a good. quantity of Raw Cotton and likewise opium

thriving

and carry

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Cenumerce.

m

The jucts that pass the harbour come principally foun Tooches and there hang districts in Kranding, and from this po and Cham in To keen. The

large ngan Vessels which arrived in summer from

banton

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