358 Note and Tabular Statement N. WV. F. Trade. 
Among the subsequent scattered writings of Steffens there are 
also some geological essays, and there is one that I must spe- 
cify,* in which he proves, in a very convincing way, that the 
deep hollow of the Hirschberger and Warmbrunner valley, on 
the north side of the Riesengebirge, and which is surrounded 
by high mountains, owes its origin to a great breaking up of a 
previously existing connection, and in fact to a great sinking.+ 
Note and Tabular Statement of goods exported via Delhi across 
the North West Frontier of India to Cabool, from May 1838 
to 30¢h April 1841. 
Tue annexed statement will shew the enormous increase 
which has taken place in the export trade to Cabool during 
the past year, aggregating on the three descriptions of pro- 
duce, no less than 38,08,873 rupees as compared with the pre- 
ceding year. 
Of the three denominations of exports, one only, being 
country produce, is prepared from official records (chokie re- 
gisters). No account being taken at the customs’ chokies of 
free goods, I have been obliged to refer to the merchants 
themselves for information as regards them, and they have 
obligingly allowed me access to their ledgers, from whence 
the amount of exports under the heads of ‘ British manufac- 
tures and Productions,’ and Sea Importations, has been ascer- 
tained, not in exact details, but sufficiently accurate to meet 
the object in view. 
I may as well mention, that previous to the occupation of 
Affghanistan by our troops in 1838-39, the exports from these 
provinces were trifling to a degree, the returns for the imports 
being for the most part sent back in specie. Within the last 
year or two, however, the demand for our exports has so 
greatly increased, that instead of taking back specie, Hoondies 
to a very large amount are sent to Dehli from Cabool, to 
* See Steffens’ Schriften, alt und neu. 1821. Vol. i. p. 190. 
+ Many geological disquisitions are contained in Steffens’ “ Anthropolo- 
gie,? published at Breslau in 1822, in 2 vols. The first half of the 1st vol. is 
occupied with what he terms “ Geologische Anthropologie.” The second part 
of his “ Polemische Blitter,” published at Breslau in 1835, is entirely devoted 
to discussions on the recent progress of Geology, —Epir. 
