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camlets ; prepared skins, with the wool and hair attached, of 

 sheep and kids : goats' skins, raw and tanned ; clarified butter ; 

 dried oxygal {karut) ; wheat ; fresh fruits — pomegranates, 

 grapes, melons, apples, quinces, pears ; dried fruits — apricots, 

 prunes, raisins ; nuts — pistacio nuts, almonds, walnuts ; drugs 

 — opium, asafoetida ; dye-stuffs — madder. Delphinium (zalil), 

 the rind of pomegranates, pistacio galls ; gums of sorts ; silken 

 materials — the cocoons of the silkworm, raw and manufactured 

 silk ; a very few horses, some ponies and cattle. 



The imports, applied to the uses of this country, are iron, 

 and iron utensils of all sorts, both for agricultural and domestic 

 use ; copper-sheeting ; tin ; cotton and woollen goods, both of 

 European manufacture and the local produce of the surrounding 

 countries; rice; Indian corn; various sugars; molasses; salt; 

 tea ; condiments of sorts ; drugs ; dye-stuffs — indigo, aniline, 

 cochineal, walnut bark, turmeric ; tanning material — catechu, 

 areca nuts, oak-galls, alum ; sulphur ; sal-ammoniac. 



Eaw cotton, tobacco, and barilla seem rather to act as 

 local coinage ; they are produced in the country, traded with 

 by the people amongst themselves, and ordinarily do not go 

 beyond the locality, these local products being consumed in the 

 country itself. 



Tragacaxth — 



The gum yielded by Asteagalus Heratexsis and other 

 species is closely allied to the Tragacanth of European 

 commerce, and is largely exported to Afghanistan, India, 

 Persia, and Turkistan, under the name katira. 



Tragopogon coloratum, C. A. Mey. Composite. 

 A species of Salsafy, gash-goshl, of which the natives eat 

 the leaves and roots as a vegetable. 



Trak-mastar, tereh-mastar — Hill-carrots, Zozimia 



ABSINTHIFOLIA. 



Treacle (liquid molasses) — shlixi, a medicinal treacle 



— tarklk (opium). 

 Tree — ddr, darakht, ban, ban, bana, ican, ivana, 



gwan, givana, kan, zan. 

 Trek — Artemisia campestris, and Artemisia mari- 



TIMA. 



