fecula. The taste was unpleasant and salt, as if it had been immersed
in lime. The other starch, from the Western Australian Zamia, in
quality rivalled arrowroot. This fecula hangs together in chains,
quite unlike the ordinary appearance of arrowroot when seen under the
microscope.

The following figures show the exports of arrowroot from Bermuda:--

lbs. Value of the exports.
1830 18,174 --
1831 77,153 --
1832 34,833 --
1833 44,651 --
1834 54,471 --
1835 65,500 --
1836 -- --
1841 91,230 --
1842 136,610 --
1843 151,757 L8,682
1844 173,275 10,974
1845 224,480 8,084
1847 -- 4,716
1848 -- 4,747
1849 -- 6,760
1850 854,329 --

In the spring of 1851, 201,130 lbs. were shipped from Bermuda.

In 1843 the quantity of arrowroot in the rough state made in Bermuda
was 1,110,500 lbs.

ARROWROOT EXPORTED FROM ANTIGUA TO

Great Britain B.N. America B.W. Indies
Boxes Boxes Boxes
1835 1,075 20 --
1836 581 43 --
1837 100 42 --
1838 472 20 --
1839 682 -- 32
1840 453 -- 30
1841 289 -- 10
1842 582 -- --
1843 744 -- --
1844 376 -- --
1845 402 5 --

Barbados exported in 1832, 16,814 lbs., value L469; in 1840, 387
packages; in 1843, 302; in 1844, 790 packages; in 1851, 306 packages;
these average about 30 lbs. each.

Ceylon now produces excellent arrowroot. In 1842, 150 boxes were
exported; in 1843, 200; in 1844, 300; in 1845, 600 boxes.

From Africa we now import a large quantity: 250 boxes were received in
1846. Not unfrequently arrowroot from Africa has been sent to the West
Indies in the ships with the liberated Africans, and thence
re-exported to England, as of St. Vincent or Bermuda growth. The duty
on arrowroot, under the new tariff, i