,153
1840 -- 37,269
1841 -- 26,528
1842 -- 26,225
1843 -- 29,928
1844 -- 42,480
1848 85,453 54,783
1849 64,451 14,622
1850 98,040 46,494
1851 55,995 2,333
1852 101,863 27,112

A London coco-nut oil soap was found, on analysis by Dr. Ure, to
consist of:--

Soda 4.5
Coco-nut lard 22.0
Water 73.5
-----
100.0

This remarkable soap was sufficiently solid; but it dissolved in hot
water with extreme facility. It is called marine soap, because it
washes linen with sea water.

Of the six principal vegetable oils, namely--palm, coco-nut castor,
olive, linseed, and rape, the first four are imported in the state of
oil only; the two last chiefly as seed. The proportion in which they
were imported is shown in the following tables; and if to these
quantities are added about a million and a half cwt. of tallow, and
nearly twenty thousand tuns of whale oil and spermaceti, they will
nearly represent the total quantity of oil imported into Great
Britain.

IMPORTS IN 1846.
Palm oil. Olive oil. Castor oil.
cwts. tuns. cwts.
Western Africa 475,364 1 --
United States 13,349 -- 290
Naples and Sicily 14 9,661 --
East Indies -- -- 6,315
Canary Islands 3,719 -- --
Malta -- 2,237 --
Turkish Empire -- 1,712 --
Tuscany -- 832 --
Spain -- 753 --
Brazil 525 -- --
Ionian Islands -- 506 --
Morocco -- 368 --
Madeira 353 -- --
Sardinia -- 333 11
Miscellaneous 7 471 65
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