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Ratans, Jali B£t, 7 Rs. pr. 100 muras (of 75 bets each). Sundi Do. one 

 quarter higher. 



Gala ditto, the large kind running from 80 to 120 feet in length, is unsaleable, 

 and therefore only cut to order. 



The prices above-mentioned are now current in Kachar ; in addition to which 

 the following duties are charged on the transit of the different articles to Sylhet. 



Rs. a. p. 



On Gundahs, 6 6 



On Diims and Kir*s, from 6 to 1 each. 



Ratans, from 2 to 3 rupees per 100 murahs. 



The expence of floating the timbers from the forest to Banga is aboat 1 R. 

 4 as. per score, and about the same sum is charged for conveying them to 

 Sylhet ; but this expence is more than compensated by the sale of the bambus 

 given gratis by the wood-cutters to form the rafts. 



As Jarul is used only in Sylhet, for the construction of large chunam boats, 

 the trade in that article has fallen off greatly of late, in consequence of the 

 stagnation in the lime business, and the annual demand therefore does not now 

 exceed two thousand timbers, which is about one-half the number formerly 

 exported. 



From 1500 to 2000 Dums and Kir is form the amount exported of those 

 classes. 



Jarul is seldom carried beyond the district of Sylhet in logs, in consequence 

 of the difficulty of floating the timbers across so large a river as the Megna ; 

 it is sometimes exported in planks, but more commonly is worked up at Azme- 

 ri-o-anj, Chattak, and Sanam-ganj into boats, for which, on account of its 

 buoyancy, it is eminently fitted. 



A Jarul boat well smeared with belah will last with occasional repairs about 

 10 or 12 years, and one of twelve hundred maunds burthen may be built in 

 Kachar for about 350 Rupees. Of the trees sold as Dums and Ka>is, there are 

 many which are very strong and durable woods, fit for building and furniture, 

 but which have not yet been introduced to a fair market in consequence of 

 the want of enterprize and capital of the traders. 



It is further probable, that as the forests have never been thoroughly examined 

 by any intelligent European, we are still ignorant of many valuable productions 

 which they contain. Besides the Oak and Tun, Chumal, (well fitted for 

 furniture,) Wild Nutmeg, Cinnamon, and Clove trees have, it is said, been seen 

 in them. T. F. 



VII. — Recommendations of the Sub-Committees of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the advancement of Science. 



An abstract of the Proceedings, and a first Report, of the grand Association 

 convened at York in the autumn of 1831, has been published in the 

 Philosophical Magazine of last March. As the suggestions drawn up 

 are of general application, we lose no time in giving them circulation in 



