This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ... quantity produced in the year 1815 was not less than twenty thousand pikuls. The manufacturers being no longer compelled to deliver their produce to government, can afford to sell the sugar at Batavia at from four to six Spanish dollars (or from twenty to thirty shillings) per pikul, the quality being distinguished ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 Excerpt: ... quantity produced in the year 1815 was not less than twenty thousand pikuls. The manufacturers being no longer compelled to deliver their produce to government, can afford to sell the sugar at Batavia at from four to six Spanish dollars (or from twenty to thirty shillings) per pikul, the quality being distinguished into first, second, and third sorts, of which the first may be bought in the market for exportation at six Spanish dollars per pikul, or about twenty-five shillings the hundred-weight. The quality of this sugar is altogether different from the sugar in Bengal, and is said to be equal to that of Jamaica, being manufactured in a great measure according to the same process. While the European market is open for coffee and other other light articles, the sugar of Java is always in demand for dead weight, and large quantities have recently been sold in the London market as high as ninety and one hundred shillings per hundred-weight. The quantity of coffee delivered to government in the year 1815, ex---in Coffee, ceeded seventy thousand pikuls; about thirty thousand pikuls more may have been exported by individuals, and the produce is greatly on the increase.-f The By an official statement of the quantity of sugar manufactured at Batavia and the various residencies of the island of Java, from the year 1779 to the year 1808, it appears that In the year 1779 it was 30,131 plhds In the year 1800 106,513 In the year 1801 107,498 In the year 1808 94,903 that during the first fourteen of these years, the quantity made and delivered over to the Company for export to Holland, Persia, &c. amounted to 642,234 pikuls, or to an average of 47,874 annually, two of these years being almost entirely unproductive, on account of the overpayment to the manufacturers...
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