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into the island. It has perfectly succeeded, and in a few years will become an important branch of commerce.

Tanneries.-There are several tanneries in Scio, which are supplied with skins from Egypt, Buenos Ayres, and Russia.

IMPORTS.

The articles imported into Scio are principally manufactured cottons and prints from England and France, through the ports of Smyrna and Constantinople. Iron chains, anchors, sugar and coffee, direct from Marseilles and Liverpool.

There are no articles imported into the island from America direct, but a small quantity of cotton drills and furniture find their way to the island through Smyrna. The American drillings are in great favor with the people, as they are of a far better quality than those made in England.

INSURANCE.

There are in Scio two marine insurance companies, the value of property insured by both being estimated at 50,000,0000 piasters.

SHIPPING.

The shipping of the island consists of four hundred and fifty vessels of various sizes, belonging to merchants and Lative captains, and are manned entirely by the natives.

TELEGRAPH.

The principal office of the Levant Submarine Telegraph is in Scio. The director of the line and six clerks reside in the island, and the number of messages annually transmitted from Trieste to Smyrna and Constantinople is very large.

EXCHANGE.

There is no direct exchange between Scio and the United States. The value of the English sovereign is 110 piasters, and the Turkish lira 100 piasters, American dollar 25 piasters.

COMMERCIAL STATEMENT.

I have the honor to enclose herewith a statement of the movement of this port for the year 1861, marked No. 1.

The islands of Mytilene and Samos, and the port of Chesme, in Asia Minor, being nearer to this consulate than to any other, and there being no consular officers of the United States residing at any one of these islands or at the port of Chesme, I had intended to have visited each of these ports during the sum mer; but there being no direct steam communication, I have been prevented from doing so.

Statement showing the arrivals, departures, and tonnage of vessels at the port of Scio, together with their nationality, for the year ended December 31,

1861.

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* * * No warehouse duty is levied by the Ottoman government on supplies purchased by vessels-of-war of the United States or any other nation.

GREECE.

ATHENS.-GEO. L. BAKER, Consul.

The total amount of the importations from foreign countries into Greece in 1859 was, in drachms, 27,392,013; total amount of the exports to foreign countries the same year were 21,884,400;. total, 49,276,413.

The following table will show the proportion of the articles of import and export:

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There has been no alteration in the tariff of duties on imports, and no alteration in the port charges in this kingdom for the last two years, as I learn. There are in Greece but ninety miles of carriageable roads, and there are no manufactures, except two or three silk-winding establishments and ship-building. The principal resource of the Greeks is agriculture. The country is badly cultivated-first, for want of capital; and second, for want of roads.

The business of ship-building is carried on successfully in Greece, more so, perhaps, than any other branch of national industry. Their vessels are from 20 to 700 tons of our measurement, are generally built of fir, not as well bolted or carefully built as our American vessels, but they will sail well and cost less than ours, and less than one-half of the vessels built in France or England, averaging not more than $27 per ton. It is therefore evident that a good portion of the coasting trade of the Mediterranean, especially of the Levant, for some time to come must be in the hands of the Greeks.

I have the promise of the minister of finance to furnish me with the report of 1860 as soon as it shall be published, though it probably will not be for some two or three months, when I will make a more detailed statement.

Should there be any changes in the tariff on imports or exports, or any alteration in the commercial regulations, or other and important changes affect ing the commerce of the United States, I shall inform the department.

(The foregoing being the only commercial statistics received at this depart ment since the report for 1858, is, though of a comparatively old date, included in this report.)

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