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opens for Bqfchar road ; and fays we mall neither be. feen or heard of 

 by the route which he mall chalk out, until wc reach a country in which 

 we (hall notbenoticedv I rather, apprehend that the prohibition has been 

 caufed by the .inquiries which,-, the old man, has been frequently 

 making fromJtfW^r people f e |8^§^% the ftate of .the road : but, be it. 



as it may, it is clear to me, that if we wifh not to furnim to the go- 



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vernor of Ghzrlope a fubftantiai.reafon for rejecting future communi- 

 cation with us, we mull abide bV his order in refpe6t to quitting his. 



country by the Niti pafs. 



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Mr. H. went to the Ca/hmrrian, and found that he wanWaUl or agent 

 of the i?4/c2 ot Latdk for the purchafe and fale of wool. He iai& 

 thatthe. amount of wool annually bought by m&Majd was between 

 two and three lakhs, the greater part of which was refold to the 

 Ca/hmfrian merchants, who waited for the return of the Wdkfl and paid 

 for it immediately. Merchants from Amritjir took off "the relL In 

 fpeaking of article® of merchandize which were marketable at Latah, he 

 mentioned coral beads, -#htth : fdrmerly were brought from Dchli and 

 Benares, and, though exceedingly dear, were refold into Tat/zry at 

 a -great profit.- But within the laft three 1 y£ars their value" has fallen 

 greatly, from the great' numbers* Which have come through Ydrkund. 

 Thefe have been brought by the (Oorots) Ruffians, who have long bzen 

 in the habit of trading with that country, and in the courfe of the lad 

 three years have puFned on a lively traffic -into Cajlimir through agents. 

 The lVakiii*\6\\ thatthe -Ooroos- had not yet been' at La'dk ; but the 

 Dtba of D :;ba afferted, that kafil'ahs of 5 or 600 Ooroos on horfeback 

 Lad come to the fair of Ghzrtopc] Now if this latter intelligence be true, 

 the Rvjfians mult reach Ghcrtope by another route than that of Yd-- 

 kund. The Wakil fa r d that the horfes of Latak were much larger than 

 thoteottindes, but that the b:ft were bred in Tdrkuni, thirty days 



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