254 On Tabular Returns of [No. 111. 



Country Produce. 



Statement No. 3, exhibits this section of the Cabool trade during 

 the year 1840, and as it is compiled from authentic documents, there 

 can be no doubt of its accuracy. Want of time has not allowed of a 

 comparison with the exports of previous years, but there are the most 

 ample grounds for asserting, that the past has more than quadrupled in 

 quantity and value the exports of former years. 



Statements No. 5 and 7> shew the exports during January and 

 February 1841, which have also been abstracted from the custom-house 

 registers. A marked improvement will be observed in these, especial- 

 ly as regards the chief staples, cloths and shoes, more than double of the 

 former, and quintuple of the latter, having been exported during these 

 two months than during the whole of last year. Indigo, which also 

 occupies a prominent station, I have reserved for particular notice 

 hereafter. 



Statement No. 10, gives the exports of the past month, (March 

 1841); this is not included with Nos. 5 and 7> with the view of 

 mentioning that measures were taken in February last at all the 

 custom posts stretching along the outer frontier line, which extends 

 from Kalsie in the Deyrah Dhoon to Goverdhun on the Eastern 

 boundary of the Bhurtpore territory, for the registry not only of all 

 country, but British and foreign produce exported to, and imported 

 from, Cabool ; and that, therefore, means are obtained for the faithful 

 record of the operations of each month, and in each article. 



From this statement it will be seen, that 92,401 pieces of cloth 

 (linen, silk, and brocades,) valued at Rs. 1,82,064 were carried across 

 the frontier in March, which was considerably more than any other 

 period, and gives evidence of the increasing demand for the productions 

 of British India. 



Cloth being the principal staple of commerce in country produce, it 

 may be necessary to state what descriptions of cloth are most desired. 

 The most valuable, and consequently the least in quantity, are kim- 

 khaubs and doputtas, (coloured,) both of which are manufactured at 

 Benares, and yield unusually large returns on re-sale at Cabool. The 

 largest in quantity, but least in value, are Furruckabad chintzes, and 

 Dooab muslins, ghingams, doosooties, and garhas, also Dinapore 

 muslins. These latter are preferred to the indigenous cloth of the 



