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General Library, are well-managed establish- 

 ments, and I must not forget to mention the 

 Kurrachee Benevolent Association, and Eu- 

 ropean and East Indian School, to which the 

 rates of admission are small, and proportionate 

 to the salaries of the fathers. In the commercial 

 line, the Delhi bank agency, Messrs Tuback 

 and Co., agents to the Bombay Steam Naviga- 

 tion and Transit Companies, and Treacher and 

 Co., take the lead, but numerous Parsee and na- 

 tive firms carry on a very extensive trade with 

 Bombay and the Persian Gulf, and the com- 

 merce of Kurrachee promises to become enor- 

 mous when the railway to Kotree shall be com- 

 pleted. Silk loongees are here manufactured 

 by about 30 families, and 20 more find emj)loy- 

 ment in manufacturing the national cap. 



The sea trade of Sindh has been gradually 

 increasing for the last ten years; for example, 

 in 1847-48, the imports amounted only to 

 28,78,720 rupees, and the exports to 15,47,308 

 rupees, whilst the im^^orts for the year 1858-59, 

 ending 30th April, 1859,amountedtol, 08,11,012 

 rupees, and the exports of the same year to 

 1,07,81,286 rupees. Thus showing a differ- 

 ence in the amount of imports of nearly eighty 



