The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom - Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on by P. L. Simmonds
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return. Of this quantity Spain takes the largest portion, Mexico the
next, and England receives but a very small quantity. Cacao exported from Guayaquil:-- lbs. 1833 6,605,786 1834 10,999,853 1835 13,800,851 1836 10,918,565 1837 8,520,121 1838 7,199,057 1839 12,169,787 1840 14,266,942 The exports of cacao from the port of La Guayra, has been as follows in the years ending December 31. Fanegas. 1850 40,181 1851 47,951 1852 54,083 Five fanegas are equal to one English quarter. The price of cacao was, at the close of 1852, sixteen dollars the fanega. The province of Caracas, according to Humboldt, at the end of the last century, produced annually 150,000 fanegas of cacao, of which two-thirds were exported to Spain, and the remainder locally consumed. The shipments from the port of La Guayra alone averaged 80,000 to |
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