These prices, exclusive of duties, are, for black
tea 25 per cent, cheaper than teas imported in the
free trade of the Dutch, and no less than 65 pér
cent, cheaper than the same commodity imported
through our own monopoly.
APPENDIX.
No. I.
ACCOUNT OF THE MATERIALS O F 'T H E MAP;
T h e ’ MAp of the Indian Islands has been compiled
ftom the following materials:—The coasts of Pegu,
Siam, the Malay Peninsula, Camboja, Cochin-China^
the island of Hainan, the Andaman Islands, the Nico-
bar Islands, Sumatra, Banca, Billiton, with the west
coast of Borneo, are taken from a chart by Captain
Horsburgh; The Paracels, and Coast of China, to the
east of the island of Hainan, are taken from the Surveys
o f1 Lieutenant Ross. The Philippines are from a
Spanish chart, published by Arrowsmith. The island
of Palawan is also from Arrowsmith, with all the points
corrected by Lieutenant Ross. The Sooloo Islands are1
from Dalrymple. The north, south, and east coast of
Borneo, the coast of Celebes, &c. are taken from the best
charts of Dalrymple, Arrowsmith, Espinoza, and from
numerous Dutch and Spanish charts, adjusted in latitude
and longitude by I observations extracted from
Horsburgh’s East India Directory. The Bashee Islands
are taken from a chart by Horsburgh. Java is from the
beautiful map of Sir S. Raffles;* and the interior of
Sumatra from Mr Marsden. The Islands of Bali
and Lombok are from a manuscript of Captain Harris
of the Bengal Artillery, compiled from native information,
and their positions adjusted from Horsburgh. Timor,
and the south coast of New Guinea, are from Flinder^.1