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to Europe are greatly increasing, and daily 

 attracting the attention of the mercantile com- 

 munity. As regards the tonnage employed in 

 the external traffic of Sindh, the number of 

 square-rigged vessels that entered this Port, 

 including steamers, during 1857-58, was 87, 

 aggregating 49,930 tons; the departures in 

 the same year were 75, tons 41,450. In 

 1858-59 the arrivals were 96 vessels, aggre- 

 gating 52,926 tons ; the departures 107, tons 

 56,554:. Vessels drawing 19 feet 6 inches, 

 have, in the past year, entered the Harbour in 

 perfect safety, and as many as twenty-five 

 vessels, ranging from 500 to 1000 tons each, 

 have been inside at one and the same time, 

 all swinging to their anchors, and not a single 

 accident has happened in either entering or 

 leaving the port. 



From the Commissioner in Sindli to the 

 Right Honourable Lord Viscount Falkland, 

 Governor and President in Council, Bombay. 



* From Andrew's Siudli Railway. 



