194^ . , ■ '■. STATISTICAL SKETCH 



The commerce carried on by merchants, is of the same nature as that 

 last described, the only additional merchandize, not included in the above de- 

 tail, supplied or received by them, in barter with the Bhoteeas, consists of 



Deliveries. Receipts. 



Tine Sugar Candy. Shawl Wool. 



Spices of all kinds. Coarse Shawls. 



Europe Broad Cloth. Ditto China Silks. 



Corals. Saffron. 



Bui gar 

 Ponies. 



Bulgar Hides. 



An enumeration of the exports and imports, from this province to the 

 plains, is given in the appendix. As the value of the former by no means 

 equals that of the latter, the deficiency is made up in specie. No transit duties 

 being collected, it is impossible to form any correct estimate of the total value 

 of the imports and exports : between four and five lacks for the first, and from 

 three lacks to three lacks and a quarter for the others is probably within the 

 actual amount. 



There can be no doubt that every branch of commerce in this pro- 

 vince, more particularly that with Tartary, has experienced very great im- 

 provement during the last six years, and has probably been augmented in the 

 proportion of full two-fifths. The only check to trade which now exists, arises 

 from the expence and difficulties of carriage. At present, every kind of 

 merchandize is transported on coolies, who carry from thirty seers to one maund 

 pakha. The hire from Almora to KasipuVy the nearest mart in the plains, 

 is two rupees and eight annas to eacli man, and the Almora merchant, accord- 

 ingly, adds twenty-five per cent, on the Kasipiir invoice price, to cover 

 this and other incidental charges, and to allow him a profit. Proceeding 



