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plant for linseed will, it is supposed, always 

 remain remunerative, and the demand seems to 

 increase as the cultivation extends. Little at- 

 tention seems, however, to have been paid to 

 its production in Meer Ali Moorad's country, 

 but mustard seed is raised there in great quan- 

 tities, and the crops appeared exceedingly fine. 



Several attempts have been made to intro- 

 duce the American cotton into Sindh, but always 

 without success, as the plants were invariably 

 attacked with blight, and the experiment has 

 at length been abandoned, and the cotton estab- 

 lishment discharged. 



Hemp is cultivated to a very great extent in 

 the Khyrpoor territory, as, indeed, in every 

 part of Sindh, for the sake of its seed, which has 

 an intoxicating effect, and is used in a variety 

 of ways : viz. Bhanr/a, sulcho or salvia, prepared 

 from the small leaves, husks, and seeds of hemp, 

 ground and mixed up with water and other ad- 

 ditions. This is, I believe, the most general 

 way of using it, and is what the European 

 soldiers call '' Green Punch." 



Ganjo. The inflorescence of the hemp be- 

 fore the gum has been expressed ; smoked in a 

 water-pipe till a contraction of the throat is felt. 



