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Appendix. 



BENARES. 

 (Mr. Duncan.) 



Produce of the District^ Sorts, Qualities, aud Uses to 

 which applied. 



Sorts. 



There are three grown in this zemindary. 

 1st. Rarreah or buroweh. 

 2d. Munnoah or jettooee. 

 3d. Nurmah. 



Quality. 



The rarreah kupas is of a very good quality and the 

 best produced, as one seer of 80 sicca-weight will give 

 one-fourth of pure ruee, and the first sort of Benares 

 thread is made therefrom. 



The nurmah is of an equal quality with the rarreah. 

 It yields the same quantity of ruee and is spun into the 

 same sorts of thread. 



The munnoah kupas is neither of so good a quality nor 

 so productive as the rarreah, for one seer of this gives but 

 one-eighth of ruee, and when manufactured into thread 

 produces only the third and fourth sort of that spun in 

 the district. 



Uses. 



The greatest part of the cotton produced in Benares is 

 spun into thread, as the spinners in this quarter prefer 

 such cotton to that from foreign countries. There is also 



a 



a portion consumed by the natives in the cold season, as 

 they use it in long rezaus, or thick quilts, which they 

 generally wear during that period; as also in purdahs 

 and such like modes. But the principal expenditure in 



this 



