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few places are better supplied with provisions than Baroche; 

 meat of all kinds is excellent and cheap; there is no want of 

 poultry: the bazars are stocked with indigenous fruits and vege- 

 tables, and the Nerbudda supplies a variety of fish, exclusive of 

 that brought in by the fishing boats from the sea. The carp in the 

 Nerbudda are uncommonly large; they sometimes weigh fifty 

 pounds; these, when stuffed and baked in a plantain leaf, are 

 much esteemed; it is most probably the same as the rooee and 

 cutlah of the Ganges, which often weigh forty pounds. Long 

 after my arrival in England, I accidentally met with an official 

 report, sent to me by the clerk of the market when I was acting 

 for the chief of Baroche, then absent in the Purgunna. It contains 

 an authentic account of the principal commodities publicly sold 

 there, at the price in Indian money, and their own weights and 

 measures, which I have brought as near as possible to the English 

 standard. It should be remarked, that at Baroche most articles 

 for the table are about one third of the price for which they can 

 be purchased at Bombay. Grain is not much dearer in general; 

 it being imported there from the northern settlements, the prices 

 at Surat are much the same as in the Baroche markets. 



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