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Badrak, Janjipur and Haribarpur, were once much prized and sought 

 after under the name of Sannahs, but the demand for the finer fabrics of 

 that description having long since greatly declined, the quantity now ma- 

 nufactured is very trifling. At Piply Niur a good sort of quilt is made. 



The province must certainly, a century or two since, have afforded some 

 encouragement to the resort of European traders, as besides the large es- 

 tablishment at Balasore, the English had inferior factories or kothis at the 

 town of Cuttack itself, and at Hariharpur, a village between that station 

 and the sea. At present the whole value of the exports and imports, which 

 pay duty, is only Sa. Rs. 2,97,285, and the customs and transit duties collect- 

 ed at the several small ports and inland chokies from the Subanrekha to 

 the Dhamra river, do not exceed Sa. Rs. 30,000 per annum. The exports 

 liable to duty are as follows : — Piece goods, bees wax, iron, kut'h (the in- 

 spissated juice of the khayar or mimosa chadira,) oil, lac, stone plates, sal 

 timber, congni wood, kurbeli, shurbeli and petty articles. 



A considerable exportation of rice takes place from the several small ports 

 along the coast to Calcutta. The horned cattle and swine of the district also 

 are carried out in large herds for the supply of the presidency market. The 

 quantity of salt now transported from the district by private individuals, in 

 the course of legal and open traffic, does not perhaps exceed 20,000 maunds 

 annually ; but formerly salt was an important article of export by way of the 

 great road leading along the Mahanadi to Sembelpur and Berar, and 

 likewise by that of the Bamangati pass in Moherbanj, more than three 

 lacs of maunds being exported annually. The dried fish and prawns of the 

 Chilka lake may be noticed as an article of traffic, between the inhabit- 

 ants of the hills, and those of the low country in that quarter. 



Piece goods, silk, good tobacco, and every thing in the shape of a luxury, 

 are imported from the adjoining districts of Bengal, and a small supply of 

 couris, cocoanuts, coral, and dried fish is obtained from the few Maldive 

 vessels, which resort annually to Balasore and Dhamra, to take on beard 

 cargoes of rice and earthen pots. 



