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Dacca. — The inferiority of some Sunn from Luckea is 

 attributed, partly to the soil, and partly to the plants having been 

 steeped, at the time of the preparation of the Sunn, in standing 

 water of tanks and jeels, covered with vegetables, which in a 

 putrified state are supposed to injure the water. 



The weakness of the Dumroy Sunn, is attributed to the length 

 of time in which, according to the usage of the district, the plant 

 is steeped at the time of preparing the Sunn. 



The superiority of the Amerabad Sunn is partly owing to its 

 being steeped in the clear water of the Megna, which at Amerabad 

 is fresh. The plant is steeped only about twenty pars, (two days 

 and a half), more or less, but is not exposed to the sun before or 

 after the watering, prior to its being made into Sunn, which takes 

 place while the plant lies in the water, where the bark is separated 

 from the stalk, by beating the plant with a broad stick. 



Dumroy. — The Resident says, the Natives manifested the 

 most inflexible obstinacy ; and although he sent a person to instruct 

 them in the new mode, who shewed them that it was practicable, 

 they still refused to deviate from their custom. They exclaimed, 

 " You may imprison our persons, you may strike our necks, but never 

 will we make Sunn according to the Advertisement." As a last 

 expedient, he proposed, that, if they would steep the plant accord- 

 ing to the Advertisement, the drying it after steeping should be 

 dispensed with. This was partially acceded to, and some has been 

 prepared accordingly : but at that time all the Sunn had been cut ; 

 and the Muster which was sent, was of Sunn prepared according to 



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