ascertained its amount in cassava
meal, prepared in the manner mentioned in the text, and in meal
prepared from the cassava sliced, dried, and ground without expressing
the juice. Assuming Liebig's formula of Proteine, namely, C-48 N-6
H-36 0-4 the results stand thus:--

Nitrogen. Proteine compounds.
Per cent. Per cent.
Maize meal (unhusked) 1.73 10.72
Plantain meal .88 5.45
Cassava meal (juice expressed) .36 2.23
Ditto from the sliced and dried roots .78 4.83
]

[Footnote 47: Les Moyens de prevenir la Maladie des Pommes de Terre.
Experiences et Conclusions de A.N.C. Bollman, Conseiller d'etat,
Professeur, &c. 8vo, St. Petersburg, 1853.]

[Footnote 48: If cinnamon seeds after washing be exposed to the sun,
even for twenty minutes, the shells will crack in two, and this
prevents the seeds from growing.]

[Footnote 49: No export duties exist in the Straits Settlements.]

[Footnote 50: Since these remarks were written, the duty has been
wholly abolished.]

[Footnote 51: Although this was the amount of produce for 1842, it
must be remarked that that crop was a complete failure, and the
average crop for some years past has been 46,666 pounds.]

[Footnote 52: Ure's Dictionary of Arts and Manufactures.]

[Footnote 53: The vernacular name for stale or putrid urine.]

[Footnote 54: "Lit" was the name applied to the plant, from which the
dye was to be prepared, and "pig" is the Scotch synonym for any kind
of earthenware vessel---in which the maceration was generally carried
on.]

[Footnote 55: Pitkins' Statistics of the United States.]

[Footnote 56: A great portion of the crop I grew had leaves measuring
two feet nine inches in length and eighteen inches wide, being larger
than I ever knew to have been grown in America. The average weight I
obtained per acre, was 25 cwt.; whereas I see by the public returns,
the average of what is grown here is only 17 1-7th cwt.]

INDEX.

_Albrus precatorius_, 643

Acacia bark, 493
_Catechu_, 495, 577
_dealbata_, 505

_Acer saccharinum_, 205

Acre, coffee trees to the, 69

Achira plant, 355

Achote, a name for arnotto, 447

_Acrocomia fusiformis_, 519

_Adeps Myristica_, 402

_Adme cyperus_, 626

_Adenanthera Pavonina_, 378