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Volume 14 Australasia - dana ward's homepage

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230 AUSTEM.ASIA.for the cultivation of rice, sweet potatoes, and other alimentary produce. All theplots belong to the cultivators themselves, who sell only the surplus of their crops,and this surplus, bought up by Chinese and other middlemen, constitutes thegreat bulk of the commodities exported by the Manilla merchants. But theexports are still far less than they might be, for the cultivated lands are estimatedat not more than 4,500,000 acres, or scarcely one-fifteenth of the whole

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