Exportation of ■froRmhu Sbat.r bP eterf • burg.
Saperiority o f
the Tartarian
■ over the Indian
Rhubarb.
E X P O R T A T ION of RHU BAR B
From St. P e t e r s b u r g .
{at 765 Dutch * dollars,
or 91 roubles, 30 co-
pecs per pood.
In 1778, 23 poods 7 pounds, at 80 ditto, or 96 roubles.
In 1778, 1055 poods were brought by theBucharian
merchants to Kiachta ; of which 680 poods 19 pounds
were feledted. The interior confumption of the whole
empire of Ruflia for 1777 amounted to only 6 poods
5 pounds t.
The fuperiority of this Tartarian Rhubarb, over that
procured from Canton, arifes probably from the following
circumltances.
r . The Southern parts of China are not fo proper for
the growth of this plant, as the mountains of Little*
Bucharia.
2. There is not fo exa<9: an examination made in
receiving it from the Chinefe at Canton, as from the
* If we reckon a Dutch dollar, upon an average, to be worth 1 rouble
20 copecs.
This calculation comprehends only the rhubarb purchafed at the
different magazines belonging to the College of Commerce j for what
was procured by contraband is of courfe not included.
Bu-
Bucharians at Kiachta. For the merchants, who pur-
chafe this drug at Canton, are obliged to accept it in the
grofs, without feparating the bad roots, and cutting
away the decayed parts, as is done at Kiachta.
jv it jg alio probable,. that the long tranfport o f this
drug by fea is detrimental to it, from the humidity
which it mttft necefTarily contract during fo long a
voyage.
TABLE.