Note 15 — Chapter XIV · [CONTINUATION OF STERN’S COMPOSITION.]
Alphonse Nahuys translation
On comparing and examining these statements, it appears from them that the rice is everywhere so abundant that all the Residencies together export more rice than is imported into all the Residencies together, I repeat, that the tables alluded to only refer to rice grown on the island. Thus the conclusion of the matter is the absurd theorem: that there is more rice in Java than there is rice in Java.15…