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i%2 Travels in India. Part. II. 



&&\fo made at Amadabat, where they are perfectly skill'd in refining it- f n 

 Which reafon it is call'd Sugar Royal. Thefe Sugar-Loaves ufually weigh frn 

 eight to ten pound. s ° m 



Opium is brought from Brampour, a Town of good Trade between Aora and 

 SurM. The Hollanders buy great quantities, which they truck for their Pen 

 per. P~ 



Tobacco alfo grows in abundance round about Brampom 5 fometimes there ha 

 been fb much that the Natives have let vait quantities rot upon the ground* 

 for want of gathering. b ' 



Gatfee grows neither in Perfia nor in India, where it is in no requeft . but 

 the Hollanders drive a great Trade in it, tranfporting it from Ornms into Perfia 

 as far as Great Tartary, from Balfara into Caldea, Arabia, Me[opotami a and 

 other Provinces of Tarky. It was firft found out by a Hermitc, whofe name 

 was ScheckjSiadcli, about twenty-years ago, before which time 'it was never 

 heard of in any Author either ancient or modern. 



Deceits in Sitt^ Wares, 



Plain Silk Wares may be alter'd in length, breadth, and quality. The qua- 

 lity (hews it felf when they are of an even thread, when the weight is equal" 

 and when there is no Cotton thread in the Weft. * 



The Indians not having the art of guilding filver, put into their frrip'd 

 Wares threads of pure Gold, fo that you mult count the quantity of Gold 

 threads to fee whether the Silk have its due number. And this alio you mtift 

 obferve in your Silks wov'n with Silver. As for Taffatas, you are only to mind 

 whether the pieces be all of a finenefs, and to fee by unfolding fbme of them 

 that there be nothing within to augment the weight, and then weighing all 

 the pieces by themfelves, to fee that they all agree. 



The colours of thofe Carpetts Which are made in India , do not laft fo 

 long as the colour of thofe which are made in Perfia j but for the workman- 

 (hip it is very lovely. The eye of the Croaker is to ;udg of the largenefs, 

 beauty, and finenefs of thofe Carpetts which are wrought with Gold and' 

 Silver, and whether they be fine aod rich. But whether they be Carpetts, 

 or other Stuffs mix'd with Gold and Silver, it behoves the Buyer to pull out 

 fome of the Gold and Silver Threads, to fee whether they be of the right 

 value or no. 



Deceits in the White Calicut s. 



The deceits ufually put upon Calicuts, are in finenefs, length, and breadth. 

 Every Bale may contain two hundred pieces j among which they will juggle 

 in five or fix or ten, lefs fine, or lefs white, fhorter or narrower than accor- 

 ding to the (cantling of the Bale, which cannot be found out but by examining 

 them piece by piece. The finenefs is difcern'd by the eye, the length and breadth 

 by the meafure. But the Indians ' praclife a more cunning way, which is to 

 count the number of threads which ought to be in the breadth, according to 

 the finenefs of the fcantling. When the number fails, it is either more tranf- 

 f Sfrent, more narrow, or more courfe. The difference is fometimes fo difficult 

 to be perceiv'd, that there is no way to find it out but by counting the threads. 

 And yet this difference in a great quantity comes to a great deal. For it is no- 

 thing to coufen a Crown, or two Crowns, in a piece that comes but to fifteen 

 or twenty Crowns. Thole that whiten thefe Calicuts, to fave charges of a 

 fewLimons, will knock the Calicuts cxcefFively upon a Stone, which does fine 

 Calicuts a great injury, and loars the price. 



As for their Calicuts dy'd blew or black, you muft take care that the Work- 

 men do not knock them after they are folded, to make them look fltek j for many 

 time3 when they come to be unfolded, you (hall find holes in the creafes. 



As for your painted and printed Calicuts, which are painted and printed as 

 they come out of the Loom, the Merchant muft take care that what he be- 

 (peaks be finim'd before the end of the Rains, for the thicker the Water is 



where 



