288 PRICES OF SUNN. 
“Bombay Hemp, rough and dark, and valued at £20 per 
ton : 
“This article, being similarly prepared, was considered equal 
in value with the Madras Hemp.” 
Though the importation of Sunn for a time diminished, it has 
again, during the last ten or twelve years, been imported in 
increasing quantities; and though here it is avowedly used 
only for ordinary purposes, Mr. J. Kyd, ship-builder, of 
Kidderpore, near Calcutta, maintained that the Sunn, if pro- 
perly cured and dressed, would prove equal to Russian Hemp, 
and even as it was then produced, it was little inferior to it. 
All that he considered was required to bring. this Hemp to a 
state of perfection, was European superintendence in the growth 
and manufacture of the material. The natives, moreover, who 
have many good fibres within their reach, usually make use of 
Sunn twine, well tanned with the bark of a species of 
Rhizophora. (v. Table of Exports, p. 299.) 
The prices of these fibres in the interior, are stated to be 
from R.1 8 to Rs.2 8 per bazar maund; that is, from 3s. to 
5s. for a maund of 84 1b., which is just three fourths of a hundred- 
weight. So, in the Madras territories, it is stated that these 
fibres may be obtained at 2s. a maund in the interior. In 
Calcutta, Sunn is quoted at about Rs. 5 per maund; and in 
Bombay at Rs. 4 8 to Rs. 51 per cwt. in Oct., to Rs, 8 per cwt. 
in June, but at Rs. 11 in June, 1854, 
In the year 1844, when Petersburgh Hemp was selling here 
for £38 per ton, Indian Brown Hemp was sold for £20, Sunn 
from £16 to £18, and Jute from £10 to £12. 
In Dec., 1854, Bombay Hemp was quoted at £35 to £48, 
Sunn £27 to £33, Jute £21 to £25, in the same ‘Price Current,’ 
when Petersburgh Hemp was selling at £58 to £63. 
