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its manufacture, as prac- 

 tised in the Cuddapah 

 district, to emigrate to 

 Khyrpoor in the service 

 of His Highness, but 

 the distance was too 

 great to allow of any- 

 one being open to 

 the temptation offered. 

 Otherwise I have no 

 doubt tliat tlie specula- 

 tion would have an- 

 swered. Indigo is in 

 great demand in Sindh, 

 but chiefly for home 

 consumption. In 1840 

 the quantity of Indigo 

 grown in the Khyrpoor 

 territory was about 900 

 maunds, or 72,000 

 pounds, but I have no 

 means of ascertaining 

 the quantity produced 

 at present. 

 Bdolllum. The Bdellium of Ge- 



nesis is known In SIndli 



