326 SEVENTH REPORT—1837, 
Poona did not exceed three rupees in value. The Dooputtehs or 
Shelehs, cloths for throwing over the shoulder and enfolding the 
body, in value from 10 to 200 rupees, were from Peytun, Jehana- 
bad, and Boorhanpoor ; those from Poona were of the value of 
five rupees only. Loogreh or Sarhehs*, varying in length from 
13 to 20 cubits, in breadth from 1% to 23 cubits, and in price 
from 14 rupee to 80 rupees, had a wider field of production, 
even Poona producing these dresses, from one or two looms 
only I believe, of the value of 80 rupees. New Hooblee, 
and Shahpoor, in the Dharwar collectorate, produced some 
dresses of the value of 30 rupees. Cholkun or bosom cloths 
are manufactured at the above places : the highest value of one 
would appear to be 10 rupees, and the lowest about three- 
pence. The silk handkerchiefs were chiefly from the Car- 
natic. 
The price of the above articles is influenced partly by the 
colours, partly by the fineness of the fabric, but chiefly by the 
quantity of gold and silver thread worked up in them. 
Some cotton carpets are manufactured at Ahmednuggur, 
and in the Jail at Poona, but do not call for notice. 
Turbands are dyed of twenty-one colours, but I have not 
space to give the names; few or none of them are fast colours, 
with the exception of black and red. 
The only woollen manufacture in the collectorates is that 
of a black smooth blanket, (Aumlee) the colour being that of 
the wool. In general the blanket is coarse, but there is 
a very fine fabric from Bijapoor. The low state of manu- 
factures is otherwise attested by the fact that, in the Poona 
collectorate, in the population returns sent to me, the weavers 
only amounted to 0°35 per cent. of the people, or one weaver 
for every 280 souls; in Khandesh 0°57 per cent., or one to 
every 173 inhabitants; and in Dharwar 1°80 per cent., or one 
in 55 inhabitants, which is prodigiously above the other col- 
lectorates. I estimate the proportion in the Ahmednuggur 
collectorate to be the same as that in Poona. 
Transit Duties. 
The transit duties are farmed; the stations for collecting 
them are numerous ; the rates, although fixed, are unjust, as 
they are not levied on uniform principles with respect to defi- 
nite tracts of country. The Carrier is not only interrupted at 
irregular intervals by British stations, but the alienated 
towns, sO numerously interspersed in the British territories, 
* Women’s dresses, 
