Subsequently the husks are beaten and the fibre is separated and dried.

Coir rope is useful on account of its durability and power of resisting decay during long immersion.

In the year 1853, twenty-three hundred and eighty tons of coir were exported from Ceylon.
The great drawback to the commencement of a cocoa-nut plantation is the total uncertainty of the probable alteration in the price of oil during the interval of eleven years which must elapse before the estate comes into bearing.

In this era of invention, when improvements in every branch of science follow each other with such rapid strides, it is always a dangerous speculation to make any outlay that will remain so long invested without producing a return.

Who can be so presumptuous as to predict the changes of future years?
Oil may have ceased to be the common medium of light--our rooms may be illumined by electricity, or from fifty other sources which now are never dreamed of.