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8a WESTERN H I N D O O S T A N. 



-^,'hicTi probably may have revived equal to that of its 

 beft days*. 

 English Fac- We have llill a confiderable factory here; and to this great 

 emporium of trade, on the weftern fide of India, are fent, by 

 different routes, the rich manufacflures oiCachemere, particularly 

 Ihawls. Unwrought cotton is the principal article of exporta- 

 tion ; befides this, numberlefs kinds of manufactured cotton, 

 made in the neighborhood, and the various manufactures of 

 Cambay, Barochia, Brodera, Sec. centre in Siirat, and are in- 

 cluded in its exports. I know of no medicinal articles, either 

 the produce of, or exported from Siirat. The furrounding 

 country abounds Mith wheat, equal in goodnefs with that of 

 Europe^. This valuable grain feldom grows farther South than 

 this latitude, and I think never exceeds tiiat of 10". Our factory 

 there confifts of a Chief, (who is always one of the council of 

 Bombay) two or three gentlemen, as counfellors to him, and four 

 or five inferior fervants of the company, as clerks ; in all, per- 

 haps, eight or ten Europeans. Our trade to and from Surat is 

 very extenfive, and our political influence is very confiderable, 

 fince we got the government of the Caftle by a grant from 

 the Mogul', we likewife receive, jointly with the Mabrattas, 

 and the Nabab, or governor, the amount of all the import and 

 export duties ; and, for the maintenance of two or three com- 

 panies of fepoys, to garriibn the caftle, we have a Jagbire in 

 lands which yields a handfome revenue. The country in the 

 neighborhood of Surat, is partly fubjecSl to the Mabrattas, and 

 partly to fome fmall tribes. The Nabab's authority extends 

 little beyond the city. 



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