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clearers and spinners generally reside in the suburbs, or poorahs 

 of Baroche, which are very extensive. The weavers' houses are 

 mostly near the shade of tamarind and mango-tees; under which 

 at sun-rise they fix their looms, and weave a variety of cotton- 

 cloth, with very fine baftas and muslins; Surat is more famous 

 for its coloured chintzes and piece-goods. The Baroche muslins 

 are inferior to those of Bengal and Madrass; nor do the painted 

 chintzes of Guzerat equal those of the Coromandel coast. 



Nothing can exceed the simplicity of the oriental manufac- 

 turers and mechanics. In Surat and Baroche, the silver-smith, 

 if convenient to his employer, brings his apparatus to the house, 

 and there makes such things as are required; in a style of 

 strength and neatness that answers every useful purpose; and in 

 some parts of India, especially at Sumatra and Anjengo, the work 

 of the natives in gold and silver filigree executed with only an iron 

 nail, is beautiful. The carpenters and cabinet-makers generally 

 came to our own houses, and made up our furniture; I have had 

 a chariot, in the English style, begun and finished, under my own 

 roof, except the heavy parts of the iron-work. 



Besides the numerous cotton manufactures at Baroche, both 

 for home consumption and exportation, during my residence there, 

 more than twenty thousand bales of raw cotton were annually 

 sent from thence to China and Bengal; which at the medium 

 price of thirty-five rupees a bale, amounted to eighty thousand 

 pounds. Exclusive of that valuable article, the Baroche districts 

 abound with wheat, juarree, rice, and a variety of grains and 

 pulse; nuts and seeds for oil; also shrubs and plants for dying 

 the cottons, 



