v T héprdCess-bfimanu&eturingthè «alt'on-the0 nortVcoast isWery-simple,
and rdbpfendingon-evapbration by'thebeat o f • -thé'suo^alohbp'inaylb'é*favèur-
ably r 'côtkfast8d‘-wilb1't4é'vcomparativelÿli expensive * process “adopted in-the’
Bengal provinces.'' Reservoirs are-ftl-ledTrdmtbé'sea’at-high tide,“and in thete
the, water, is -allowed -tcvremam' forteveraPdiys ; ‘this1‘being 'found' necessary
to-preveîft thê«al#frdm bëlnghitter. It is-then conveyed-hy means- of canals
and ; sluices“ to 4h & pansy • which • are- dis tributed'in eompartmentsand banked
ini sOiaSitoeontain the-sea-water, m-ueh in the-samesmanner ns thétice-fields.
If the weattaNbê'dry and thë* siffe-clear; fiye^tMys'-are found’suffiëientifôr
the^precesSrtôf^evapQration-in-* the- pSnsq- after- whicbrthe- salt-is collected
together -in heaps, -whërb dt-husuall-y*refnàins five-days^lohgér* before it is
bfOüghtintosMOrëv
Under the J^utch government,'the manufacture -pfesalt--Was' fârmed“ouü
tb'flà'Hlësè“ as an exolusiye*privilegeq ■ amMo thèse farms; -under the-pleh- of
enabling the fkrmer’to-' commands sufficient number-of hands fordrOnducting
his undertaking,- and1'enabling* him - to ■ make--bis advances -ter government,
extensive tracts-ofi rice 'land1' were attached, “over- the* population of“Which
thfe-fkrmepwas-allowed- unlimited Authority-.- Bÿ a4, aniftî^ejd-'-ektêifirètfbf
these'tracts, a population far more numerous than- the-work, attSe^^Ppan-s'
required-was wrested from-thefadministration'-ôf %he*-regents and transferred
to the Chinese : as-theyfoiind their advantage-in renting out thd'tidWfifelâs-1
and employing the people in the transport-of^gdods- and-bthërtl&bb'rîbiîs
ôffiéfes-of- thé country-,.1 the '-farms" ofttoiirsersold1 ‘for- mOrWfeohhy.V USfâer
this^systétes-iti^ difficult-to say what was-the actual-cbstio'ftthe sal^tir the-
farmer': 'thèfc'man»faeturers- were partly remunerated1,1 in-lahehahd partlyin
ïnoney, - an <Mhe*inOde varied ip'every district-; Biitr this^eShhémSdïï^s’èldom
amounted_to moSfhan a bare subsistence*
- If wasdfce-practice1 of these Warmers-general to undêriëtito other ëhTnèsq
the privilege^ of selling "sally supplying’ them with- the- article- at a certain
fat'é; and these under-farmers -sold thë-salt again’to.tbe'petty retailersdn the
publie■ markets,^af an advanced- pncS: The? price of-the salt, after passing
through the'hands of thefarrbers, variedPWonïÿ’acfcÔfhing fotbë |l^aüce
ftôùvr4he-place Of -manufacturi;,-- but-according to the-capital and spéculation
of thPmadis^rtaer :^’if -hé^adèpted'. theriîbéfab system olf^bfaïning small
profitS upon-a large-salep the1 market was abundahtly-supplied'at a‘low rate :
bat -if,- oil - the-contrary,- hé traded'on- a- small-capital,' and enhanced' the
price by insufficiently answering the demand, the priée- became' jirp^or
tionally exo-fbitant.CJln some places, &$<ai>S&idtiga and Ung*arang, througft
which- the salt-Was 'transported1 by^iifland - carriage to the populous districts
of the interior,“* the1 price-was sometimes as high as one hundred aM twenty,
and> even one hun d red * ahd'fert-y Spanish dollars per - while-along the
coast,- - as at L@heHbonv axi&rSurabaya, it was asf-low as thirty, and at Grdsik
twenty-five. v. The average irij{fche • ^ l a r ^ i s ,*1 when the farming system Wias
Pbolishbd;.-may “*be'ftakeH^hihe•'district1 with ahdther; 'at- abbbt■ fifty-seven
Spanish d'pllajfs or rather less than thirty dollars per tbri1.~",v
' The* quantity usually'calculated for-'thejannual*'consumption of Java’ and
Madura', -including bfeout’bne«thGu&nd;^ya«» estimated- to be ‘manufactured
in* -the native “provinces,- is1 sixteen “thousand ■kdyans,■ or thirty-two thousand
tons,* -1 Under “the* arrangements how*adbptiediif©'r 'the manufacture-'and1 sale
of this'a'Fticle,U lthe'averageuiafce'at which the-manufacturers b,re paid is about
sis rupees Ah&koyant including1 “-thfejeharges'-ofJ transport! to -the dephts, and
■ihd^sale ‘price- varies -from twenty-five* to thi-rtyifivc'Spanish dollars,- according
to the'.distance from-the-principal dep6ts ; ; amadequate supply by means of
smaller dephts is insured in every part‘of the Country.
“'^hc'saltibf •iJavmexpferted-to' the other Slahds^f‘thb ^Archipelago, -eonx-
pbtes “withrthafc bftSiam -and-the Ubromandel coafet, :and generally supercedes
it;‘-b.oth‘ on-accodnt-of its-ijualityJahd ‘chedpne&s. nThe-exportation- is free
to ailllpia'ces ‘except' Bengal; ■ 'wlidr&,libh^acCoiint Afrits' interference with -the
rnonopoly’there'establishdd, htohasj1 smee4he*eo'nquest:'bf'Java; ■ been- found
jfeeessarv to'prohibit-rfcs importation1 under-penalty of- confiscation.
The s'al^of 'thesoutlf-tebaktiheihg-manufactuted by a process1 wbicH{ is-much
morelexpensive’ than-thiat- e mpl oy e dJ oir th e hi or th,1 ^rid'atithe* same-’tim e being
inferior-in-quality, itds * only consumed irr. pTacCs Which the lattfer is'prevented
from’-rdatehing by* 'the-^difficultyUbf conveyance ‘W Inland^ tolls arid prohi-
Bitiohs and it -.has-ebhsetiuently*vbde'n -Calculated,-'that' the north- coast* salt,
if1 fallowed to-’paSs-tolh’frfce'throughithe’-countiyi ’•Wbuld tin -aJshort-time
supersede that from* ‘thd^sdiith troast alto,ghthei'?B^hehnferior->quality o f 'the
ltdterJiscicausted£ fay* the* quaritityJbf 'the sulphate of-magnesia uit contains,
which ‘fenders Jit 'By its-bittferhess'iuhpleasaht‘ for culinary purpbses, -
Of- late years,' the whlue8 of the manufactmihg industry -4bf-'the- codntfy Manufacturing
may be in-some‘degree'appreciated, ‘from- tKd*'-assisfanJcelit has' Afforded to
-pie European“ government, • when1; drr dbusequehcb 'bf 'the war; the-importation
Jbf Eufbpean articles hhd*'becobierinsuffi;cient'fbr the-public-service.
B^o^d'-cloth ‘not being prochfable for *the afrmy, a> ‘bind of'coarse cotton
g A 2 cloth