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Excerpt from Reports From the Consuls of the United States, Vol. 144: September 1892 It was in 183 7 38 that this culture really began to take serious propor tions. Abbas Pasha I still further encouraged it. In 1860 the export duty was reduced from 10 per cent to 1 per cent ad valorem, which, of course, helped to stimulate the culture; but the great impetus was given by the American civil war, the high prices at that period causing the cultivation to be pushed to the utmost limits. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.