Products. Quantity. Mean Price. Total Value.
Brazil Nuts. 18,397 alq. $2.00 $36,794
Cacao. 314,327 arr. 3.00 942,981
Cattle. 110   25.00 2,750
Coffee. 79 arr. 3.70 292
Copaiba. 72,030 lbs. .30 2,160
Cotton, raw. 653 arr. 1.25 816
Dried Meat. 6,821 " 2.75 18,757
Farina. 90 alq. 2.50 247
Guarana. 1,374 arr. 30.00 41,220
Hides. 11,871  2.00 23,742
Horses. 142  75.00 10,650
India-rubber. 128,955 arr. 10.00 1,289,550
Piassaba. 7,612 " 1.00 7,612
Pirarucu. 94,316 " 2.50 235,790
Sasparilla. 5,119 " 11.80 60,442
Tallow. 1,893 " 4.00 7,572
Tobacco. 205 " 12.23 2,525
Tonka Beans. 260 " 4.80 1,248
Turtles. 331  1.80 596
Turtle-oil. 3,762 j'rs. 4.75 17,760

II. Articles Exported from Pará to the United States in 1860.

Annatto lbs. 64,832Piassaba lbs. 3,488
Balsam Copaiba " 89,670Rubber, fine " 2,394,656
Cacao " 145,888    "    mixed " 69,120
Copper, old " 1,171    "    coarse " 420,000
Hides, wet " 616,172Skins, Deer " 64,406
    "    dry " 4,503Tapioca " 118,080
Nuts, Brazil " 23,582Tonka Beans " 18,298
   "       "    unshelled " 19,481 

III. Articles Imported from the United States to Pará in 1860.

Axes dozens, 1,826 Matches cases, 174
Candles boxes, 594 Oars number, 592
Chairs dozens, 333 Pepper bags, 190
Codfish drums, 1,943 Rosin barrels, 1,556
Clocks number, 660 Rubber and other Shoes pairs, 3,398
Combs dozens, 7,353 Shooks (box) number, 16,428
Domestics package, 2,370 Soap boxes, 6,891
Drugs " 435 Specie, in Gold dollars, 113,827
Flour barrels, 16,755 Straw Paper reams, 12,903
Fire-crackers boxes, 1,800 Soda-biscuit 12-lb. tins, 5,954
Gunny-bags number, 13,000 Saltpetre kegs, 95
Gunpowder kegs, 2,150 Tea chests, 235
Hams tierces, 38 Tea boxes, 533
Hardware packages, 201 Tar and Pitch barrels, 329
Hats, Palm-leaf cases, 506 Tobacco boxes, 257
Knives dozens, 2,195 Twine, Cotton pounds, 13,322
Lard packages, 2,709 Tortoise-shell " 299½
Lumber feet, 75,955  
Nails kegs, 588  

IV. Duties on Principal Imports from United States at Pará.

Axes and Hatchets 30 reys per pound.
Biscuit, Soda 400 " arroba.
Brooms 600 " dozen.
Chairs, cane-seat 1,000 " article.
       "        rocking 3,000 " "
                     "              "         extra 6,000 " "
Cinnamon, Ceylon 500 " pound.
Combs, rubber 600 " "
    "        ivory 2,000 " "
Cotton Goods 90 " sq. vara.
        "      "        colored twills 150 " "
Candles 240 " "
Cigars 1,200 " "
Cordage 50 " "
Dirks, ordinary 6,000 " article.
     "   extra 12,000 " "
Flour 150 " arroba.
Hats, Palm-leaf. 180 " article.
Hams 70 " pound.
Homœopathic Medicine 300 " ounce.
Knives 250 " article.
Lard 1,500    
Matting, India 240 " pound.
Nails, to two inches 40 " "
Padlocks, brass 250 " "
    "          iron 180 " "
Pearl Barley 400 " arroba.
Pepper, India 70 " pound.
Plows free.    
Pork 600 " arroba.
Powder 200 " pound.
Paper, Straw 30 " "
Pilot Bread 150 " arroba.
Roman Cement 50 " "
Rosin 1,200    
Sieves, iron wire 30 " pound.
    "         brass 50 " "
Shoes, Rubber 400 " "
Store Trucks 900 " article.
Shooks, boxes 400 " arroba.
Soap, Yellow 30 " pound.
Scales, simple 120 " "
Tar and Pitch 200 " arroba.
Tortoise-shell 2,500 " pound.
Tea 450 " "
Twine, Cotton 300 " "
Trunks, 2 to 4 palms 2,700 " article.
    "       over 4   " 3,600 " "
Tobacco, chewing 4,800 " arroba.
    "         cut 9,600 " arroba.

This Tariff went into operation February 23, 1861.


ADDENDA.

Orchilla, page 29.—This valuable lichen comes chiefly from Tumbez. It is not found on the rocks, like the orchilla of the Old World, but grows on various trees. The foliage of a tree disappears when the orchilla commences. The sea air is indispensable to its production, as it is found only near the coast.

Religious Intolerance, p. 91.—The expression "Protestant dogs" has since been publicly repeated by a priest in a sermon, who told the people to confess, or they would be treated in a similar way. It called forth a remonstrance from Mr. Hamilton, the British Minister, directed to the archbishop, declaring such conduct inhuman and unchristian. The Pope's Nuncio left Quito for good in July, 1869.

Fish in the Quito Valley, p. 107.—Dr. Gill informs me that the true name of this little fish is Cyclopium Humboldtii, Swainson. It belongs to the sub-family Trachelypterinæ, under Siluridæ.

Hummers' Nests, p. 108.—They are not always of a lengthened form, as the text would imply, but are sometimes quite shallow. They are invariably lined with the softest vegetable materials and covered with moss. The nests are not as compact as those of our Northern hummer, and, so far as we observed, are never shingled with flat lichens.

Humboldt in 1802, p. 156.—He spent five months in the valley of Quito.

Pebas Fossils, p. 282.—In a letter to the author, Mr. Darwin says: "Your discovery of marine shells high up the Amazon possesses extreme interest, not only in itself, but as one more most striking instance how rash it is to assert that any deposit is not a marine formation because it does not contain fossils. As for myself, I never believed for a moment in Agassiz's idea of the origin of the Amazonian formation." Agassiz "candidly confesses (Lyell's Principles, i., 468) that he failed to discover any of those proofs which we are accustomed to regard, even in temperate latitudes, as essential for the establishment of the former existence of glaciers where they are now no more. No glaciated pebbles, or far-transported angular blocks with polished and striated sides; no extensive surface of rock, smooth, and traversed by rectilinear furrows, were observed." The fossiliferous bed at Pebas is as plainly in situ as the Medina sandstone at Genesee Falls.

Tropical Flowers, p. 292.—"During twelve years spent amid the grandest tropical vegetation, I have seen nothing comparable to the effect produced on our landscapes by gorse, broom, heather, wild hyacinths, hawthorns, purple orchises, and buttercups."—Wallace's Malay Archipelago.

Coca-plant, p. 293.—The engraving conveys the impression that the leaves are parallel-veined; but the coca is a dicotyledon, with the under surface of the leaf strongly marked with veins, of which two, in addition to the midrib, run parallel with the margin.

Pedrero, Map.—This town on the Rio Negro is also written Pedreira.


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