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I shall now only particularize their commerce with Baroche, the 

 Barygaza of the Greeks: on which subject the publications of 

 Dr. Robertson and Dr. Vincent have thrown considerable light. 



Dr. Robertson's account of the ancient commerce of this city 

 is taken from Arrian's treatise of the navigation of the Erythrean 

 sea. After describing the trade of Pattala on the Indus, he says 

 " a far more considerable emporium on the same coast was Bary- 

 gaza; and on that account the author, whom I follow here, 

 describes its situation, and the mode of approaching it, with 

 great minuteness and accuracy. It situation corresponds entirely 

 with that of Baroche, on the great river Nerbudda; down the 

 stream of which, or by land carriage, from the great city of Tagara 

 across high mountains, all the productions of the interior country 

 were conveyed to it. The articles of importation and exporta- 

 tion in this great mart were extensive and various. Among the 

 former, our author enumerates Italian, Greek, and Arabian wines, 

 brass, tin, lead, girdles or sashes of curious texture, melilot, white 

 glass, red arsenic, black lead, gold and silver coin. Among the 

 exports he mentions the onyx, and other gems, ivory, myrrh, va- 

 rious fabrics of cotton, both plain and ornamented with flowers, 

 and long pepper." 



The modern imports and exports of Baroche are similar to 

 those mentioned by Dr. Robertson; wines indeed are not in- 

 cluded, except for the consumption of Europeans, and the trade 

 in onyxes, cornelians, and agates, from the Sardonyx mountain 

 of Ptolemy, not many miles from Baroche, has been transferred 

 from thence to Cambay, where these stones are exclusively cut and 

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