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conservancy laws many of them are being deprived of the right to € 
down Cutch trees, and are therefore taking to other occupations. 
existence of a separate people or a people recognisable as different iod 
the other inhabitants of the forests shows how ancient the art of 
manufacturing this extract must he seats of the trade have doubt- 
less been repeatedly changed through the extermination of the tree or 
the administrative reguiations that have prevailed. While to a small 
extent it is manufactured very nearly in every district of India, there 
may be said to be three chief forms of ordinary Cutch, viz., * Pegu, 
from Burma; ** Bengal," obtained from Nepal, Kumaon, dnd to a small 
extent from Chutia Nagpur; and ‘ Bombay,” prepared chiefly in 
es rat. 
ut there are also different qualities (if not perhaps chemically 
different articles) such, for example, as, 1st, the dark Cuteh or Catechu 
of Pegu and Bombay, which is used for industrial purposes nin is the 
of the eid Gambier; and 3rd, Kersal or pias id substance 
- found imbedded in the-wood much after the same fashion as the Barus 
Camphor. Although an effort has been made to recommend the pale 
Catechu of India as a deserving substitute for the Gambier of European 
commerce, it is believed little progress has as yet been made. s 
difference is effected by the method of preparation followed i in Kum 
and hence should a superiority be recognised the exports might eme 
enough be changed from the bed eed blocks at present exported 
from Pegu and the cakes of mbay, into the crystalline article, the 
more $0 since a simple process of effecting that result has recently been 
discovered. 
e trade in this yogs cannot, however, be Eoss as in a 
prosperous condition so far as production is concerned, as may be seen 
from the following table of the exponi for the past meg years, and by 
way of comparison those of 1879 to.1884 :— 
Years. Cwt. Rs. | Years. Cwt. Rs. 
1879-80 - - 222,123 | 2,813,994 1888-89 - - 290,896 | 4,423,219 
1880-81 - - 316,077 | 4,222,527 1889-90 - - | 221,986 | 3,334,004 
1881-82 - - 198,897 | 2,580,840 1890-91 - ^ 156,493 | 2,363,549 
1882-83 - - 246,506 | 3,052,434 1891-92 - - 197,059 | 8,172,961 
1883-84  - - 32,302 | 3,532,000 1892-93 - B 229,316 | 3,824,840 
About two-thirds of the exports usually go from Burma and the 
major portion of the remaining third from Bengal The United 
Kingdom takes fully a third of the total exports. 
SUGAR. 
There are fourteen von factories of this nature in India, five in 
Madras, seven in Bengal, and two in the North-West Provinces. The 
more important are the Cossipore San ie Factory (near Calcutta), with 
a capital of Rs. 1 e AA the Rosa Sugar Factory, pmi 
the Ask Factory, Ga anjam Parry & Co.’s Factories in South ARE, 
and the Tinnevelly Su ne emo Co. The Sujanpur Factory at 
€— is also a rum distille 
