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Amsootie kinds are usually spun into thread of the first Appendix 

 and second subdivisions thereof, and the other sorts are 

 expended indiscriminately in the other sorts spun here. 



But although in this district the spinners use the foreign 

 cot on only when the produce of the country cannot be 

 easily procured, and manufacture it into coarse thread, it 

 is certain that the Nagpore, Amsootie, &c. are capable in 

 good hands of being spun into very fine and good thread; 

 and from the great quantities exported to the Company's 

 provinces, there is no doubt of its being there manufac- 

 tured into fine thread. 



It has already been stated, that the munnoah produced 

 in this district is not equal to the rarreali in quality, nor 

 is it by any means equally productive or capable of being 

 spun into such good thread. The munnoah feels some- 

 what hard and rough in the grain in the hand, and has 

 no great adherence or consistency; for when a little of it 

 is pulled asunder or drawn in contrary directions by the 

 fingers, it easily separates or has a natural dryness in it. 

 The cloth manufactured from its thread does not last 

 long, and is soon worn out in washing. This sort is used 

 for lining habits, rezaus, &c. as the natives state that one 

 seer of munnoah yields more warmth when used as lining 

 than two seers of rarreah, and this they place to its in- 

 herent dryness above-mentioned. 



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