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 .'/12 DESCRIPTION OF larger dimensions, from the imperfect processes of the native artisans in manufacturing the raw ma- terial, arc not in request. In wrought iron, a small quantity of fine cutlery and some coarse cutlery is in demand, with locks, hinges, kc. and in Java, carriage springs and car- riage mountings. Cleavers ('parang J and hoes, CpachidyJ if suitably manufactured, would also answer ; but the most material articles of this nature are nails of various sizes, small anchors, weighing from six to twelve cwt., which the native vessels have begun of late years to use, and which are in most urgent demand with them during the short boisterous period that ushers in the westerly mon- soon ; and iron pans, called by the natives IcvoaU, These last are the only articles of iron brought from any other part of the world than Europe. They have been, from time immemorial, imported from China. They are invariably used as sugar-boilers, 4nd by the Chinese, and occasionally by the natives, as culinary vessels. Our acquaintance with the wants of the market in this respect has not been long or intimate enovigli to enable us to substitute for such commodities our better and cheaper ma- nufactures. There is a considerable importation of wrought and unwrought copper. The first is entirely from Europe, and the latter chiefly from Japan. Ja- pan copper brings a price in the markets of the 10