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In the nineteenth century there was enough rum imported to make the entire city drunk, and one vat of the Rum Quay at the West India Dock held 7,800 gallons. There was enough sugar to sweeten the Thames and enough indigo to dye the river blue. Sealed under bond, in the warehouses, were generally Pounds 10 million by cost of pepper, Pounds 23 million of tobacco and pounds 51 million of tea. There was rubber, and coffee, cinnamon and dates and canned meats. A single cold store in the Royal Albert Dock could accommodate 250,000 carcasses of mutton, and the Surrey Docks could hold a million tons of timber. The wine terminal at the West India Dock could contain almost a million gallons. Page 198

THAMES ~ The Biography
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