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This averaged about 1,21,095 maunds of oranges 

 per annum, worth from i J lacs to lilacs of Rupees, in 

 favourable years. These statistics only deal with 

 exports to Bengal, and mostly to Calcutta. No account 

 is kept of oranges consumed locally, and in the im- 

 mediate surroundings of the orange groves. 



Mr. J. D. Anderson, Officiating Deputy Com- 

 missioner of Sibsagur, Upper Assam, further states 

 that this orange is also called sumthira tenga, and 

 that the traffic is carried on first by the barki boats 

 of the hill streams, and then by the larger country 

 boats of the beparis, who - take them to Dhaka, and 

 Goalundo. From the latter place they are, I believe, 

 railed to Calcutta. 



Mr. C. Brownlow, writing in the Journal of the 

 A.H.S of India (part iv., new series, vol. i. 1869, 

 p. 372), on the orange groves of Shalla, says that the 

 trade of this district in 1869, was in limestone, oranges, 

 potatoes, India-rubber, and other minor articles. The 

 oranges came from Shalla. The orange mart is at 

 Chattuck, or South bank of the Soorma river, and 

 directly opposite to the mouth of the Shalla river (a 

 tributary of the Soorma). The custom was to count 

 the oranges in fours, and 750 fours made a sou of 

 3,000, and the prices were so much per sou. Rain 



