WORKS CONSULTED.

SIMMONDS'S COLONIAL MAGAZINE, 15 vols. PORTER'S TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST. PAXTON'S BOTANICAL DICTIONARY. LAWSON'S MERCHANT'S MAGAZINE, 2 vols. PROFESSOR ROYLE, on the Productive Resources of India. CRAWFORD'S HISTORY OF THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO, 3 vols. LOGAN'S JOURNAL OF THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO, 3 vols. REPORTS AND DOCUMENTS CONNECTED WITH THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY,
in regard to the Cultivation and Manufacture of Cotton, Wool, Raw Silk, and Indigo in India. JOURNAL OF THE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. MILBURN'S ORIENTAL COMMERCE. URE'S DICTIONARY OF ARTS AND MANUFACTURES, AND SUPPLEMENTS. CHASE'S HISTORY OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. PROFESSOR BALFOUR'S MANUAL OF BOTANY. DUPON'S TRAVELS IN SOUTH AMERICA, 2 vols. COUNT DANDOLO on the art of Rearing Silk Worms. JOURNAL AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE NEW YORK STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, 7 vols. PRIDHAM'S HISTORY OF CEYLON AND ITS DEPENDENCIES, 2 vols. PRIDHAM'S HISTORY OF THE MAURITIUS. TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF JAMAICA, 5 vols. THE BARBADOS AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S REPORTER, 2 vols. LOW'S DISSERTATION ON THE AGRICULTURE OF THE STRAITS SETTLEMENTS. M'CULLOCH'S COMMERCIAL DICTIONARY, last Edition and Supplements. HUNT'S NEW YORK MERCHANT'S MAGAZINE, 27 vols. DE BOW'S COMMERCIAL REVIEW, New Orleans, 6 vols. RENNY'S HISTORY OF JAMAICA. SCHOMBURGK'S HISTORY OF BARBADOS. BREEN'S HISTORY OF ST. LUCIA. CAPTAIN BEEVER'S AFRICAN MEMORANDA. PERREIRA'S ELEMENTS OF MATERIA MEDICA. SPRY'S PLANTS, &c., required for India. HOOPER'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY. PERLEY'S REPORTS ON THE FOREST TREES AND FISHERIES OF NEW BRUNSWICK. ESSAYS ON THE CULTIVATION OF THE TEA PLANT IN THE UNITED STATES, by Junius Smith, L.L.D. THE MAHOGANY TREE, its Range, &c. THE STATES OF CENTRAL AMERICA, by John Bailey, R.M. THE INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES OF NOVA SCOTIA, by A Gesner. REPORTS ON THE PAST AND PRESENT STATE OF H.M.'s COLONIAL POSSESSIONS, for the years 1849-50. POOLE'S STATISTICS OF COMMERCE. PATENT OFFICE REPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1849-50. DE BOW'S INDUSTRIAL RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN STATES OF AMERICA, 4 vols. OFFICIAL AND DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION; Part 1.—RAW MATERIALS. DR. O'SHAUGHNESSY'S BENGAL DISPENSATORY. ARCHER'S ECONOMIC BOTANY. A FEW WORDS ON THE TEA DUTIES, by J. Ingram Travers. OBSERVATIONS ON THE VEGETABLE PRODUCTS OF CEYLON. GENERAL STATISTICS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE, by James McQueen. A HISTORY OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM, by W. Rhind. THE STATISTICAL COMPANION, by Banfield and Weld. FORTUNE'S TRAVELS IN CHINA. BALL ON TEA CULTURE. PROFESSOR ROYLE ON COTTON. LECTURES ON THE RESULTS OF THE GREAT EXHIBITION, delivered before the Society of Arts, 2 vols. JOHNSON'S FARMER'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA. A DISSERTATION UPON TEA, by Thomas Short, M.D.; 1753. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS ON TRADE AND NAVIGATION. THE HONG KONG ALMANAC AND DIRECTORY. JAMAICA ALMANACS, &c. KEEFER'S PRIZE ESSAY ON THE CANALS OF CANADA, 1850. COLMAN'S CONTINENTAL AGRICULTURE, 1848. CUBA IN 1851, by Alexander Jones. MARTIN, on China. CEYLON ALMANACS. EARL'S ENTERPRISE IN TROPICAL AUSTRALIA. CUNNINGHAM'S HINTS FOR AUSTRALIAN EMIGRANTS. DR. TURNBULL'S CUBA, with Notes of Porto Rico. LT. MOODIE'S TEN YEARS IN SOUTH AFRICA, 2 vols. FARMER'S MAGAZINE, 20 vols. ROBERTSON'S LETTERS ON SOUTH AMERICA, 3 vols. STEVENSON'S TWENTY YEARS RESIDENCE IN SOUTH AMERICA, 3 vols. JOURNALS OF THE STATISTICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND PARIS. PHARMACEUTICAL JOURNAL, 10 vols. THE LEADING AGRICULTURAL PERIODICALS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE COLONIES. BALANZA GENERAL DE COMERCIO OF CUBA. KNIGHT'S CYCLOPÆDIA OF THE INDUSTRY OF ALL NATIONS.

PREFACE.

The objects and purposes of the following Work are fully set forth in the introductory chapter; but I may be permitted to remark here, that its compilation and arrangement have occupied a very large share of my time and attention, and I can therefore assert with confidence, that it will be found the most full and complete book of the kind that has ever yet appeared. It is not a mere condensation from Encyclopædias, Commercial Dictionaries, and Parliamentary and Consular Reports; but is the fruit of my own Colonial experience as a practical planter and of much laborious research and studious investigation into a class of ephemeral but useful publications, which seldom meet with any extended or enduring circulation—assisted, moreover, by the contributions and suggestions of many of the most eminent agricultural chemists, planters, and merchants of our Colonial Possessions and Foreign Countries.

Few are aware of the great labor and research required for digesting and arranging conflicting accounts—for consulting the numerous detached papers and foreign works treating of the subjects embraced in this volume, and for referring to the home and colonial trade circulars, Legislative papers, and scientific periodicals of different countries. The harassing duties appertaining to the position of City editor of a daily paper, coupled with numerous other literary engagements, have afforded me insufficient time to do full justice to the work while passing through the press; and several literal typographical errors in the botanical names have, I find, escaped my attention in the revision of the sheets. I have, however, thought it scarcely necessary to make a list of errata for these. From want of leisure, to reduce all the weights and measures named in the body of the work into English, I have given their relative value in the Index. I have taken considerable pains to make the Index most full and complete, for it has always appeared to me, that in works embracing a great variety of subjects, facility of reference is of paramount importance.

Some discrepancy may here and there be found between the figures quoted from Parliamentary returns and those derived from private trade circulars; but the statistics are accurate enough for approximate calculations.

Whilst the work has been passing through the press, several important modifications and alterations have been made in our Tariff.