66 VEGETABLE OIL AND OIL SEEDS SUGAR. 



Manufacturing and Commercial Articles Oils, Gums, 

 Dyes, %c. 



With reference to the manufactures of this part of 

 the country, it is difficult to describe the extensive 

 and silent desolation which the extinction of many 

 petty branches of industry has given rise to. This has 

 arisen chiefly from the import of Europe manufac- 

 tured goods, and, secondly, from the decreased con- 

 sumption caused by change in political relations. 

 It seems to me hopeless to suppose, that any increase 

 of raw exports, which the country may be capable 

 of furnishing, can at all compensate for the destruc- 

 tion of the branches of industry before named. At 

 the same time, there are many articles which India 

 may supply in the raw state, with great advantage at 

 least to a portion of the population. Of these, the 

 vegetable oil and oil seeds hold a prominent part ; 

 but this branch of commerce is as yet quite in its 

 infancy. 



The second is Linseed. 



The third is Sugar. As regards the Deckan, I have 

 (from actual trials made,) no doubt but that the arti- 

 cle can be manufactured and sold at a very remu- 



