Travels in India. Part. II. 



is alfo made at Amadabat, where they are perfectly skill'd in refining it j for 

 which reafbn it is call'd Sugar Royal. Thefe Sugar-Loaves ufually weigh from 

 eight to ten pound. 



Opium is brought from Brampour, a Town of good Trade between Agra and 

 Sttrat. The Hollanders buy great quantities, which they truck for their Pep- 

 per. 



Tobacco alfo grows in abundance round about Brampour ; fometimes there has 

 been fa much that the Natives have let vaft quantities rot upon the ground, 

 for want of gathering. 



Coffee grows neither in Per fia nor in India, where it is in no requeft ; but 

 the Hollanders drive a great Trade in it, tranfporting it from Ormus into Perfia, 

 as far as Great Tartary, from Balfara into Caldea, Arabia, Mefopotamia, and 

 other Provinces of Turky- It was firft found out by a Hermite, whole name 

 was Scheck^Siadeli, about twenty-years ago, before which time, it was never 

 heard of in any Author either ancient or modern. 



Deceits in Silk. Wares. 



Plain Silk Wares may be alter'd in length, breadth, and quality. The qua- 

 lity fhews it felf when they are of an even thready when the weight is equal, 

 and when there is no Cotton thread in the Weft. 



The Indians not having the art of guilding filver, put into their ftrip'd 

 Wares threads of pure Gold, fo that you muft count the quantity of Gold 

 threads to fee whether the Silk have its due number. And this alfo you muft 

 oblèrve in your Silks wov'n with Silver. As for Taffata's, you are only to mind 

 whether the pieces be all of a finenefs, and to fee by unfolding fome of them, 

 that there be nothing within to augment the weight, and then weighing all 

 the pieces by themfelves, to fee that they all agree.- 



The colours of thofe Carpetts which are made in India, do not laft fo 

 long as the colour of thofè which are made in Perfia % but for the workman- 

 fhip it is very lovely. The eye of the Broaker is to ;udg of the largenefs, 

 beauty , and finenefs of thofe Carpetts which are wrought with Gold and 

 Silver, and whether they be fine and rich. But whether they be Carpetts, 

 or other Stuffs mix'd with Gold and Silver, it behoves the Buyer to pull out 

 fome of the Gold and* Silver Threads, to fee whether they be of the right 

 value or no. 



Deceits in the White Calicut s\ 



The deceits ufually put upon Calicuts, are in finenefs, length, and breadth. 

 Every Bale may contain two hundred pieces ; among which they will juggle 

 in five or fix or ten, lefs fine, or lefs white, fhorter or narrower than accor- 

 ding to the fcantling of the Bale, which cannot be found out but by examining 

 them piece by piece. The finenefs is difcern'd by the eye, the length and breadth 

 by the meâfùre. But the Indians pra&ifè a more cunning way, which is to 

 count the number of threads which ought to be in the breadth, according to 

 the finenefs of the fcantling., When the number fails, it is either more tranf- 

 parent, more narrow_, or more courfè. The difference is fometimes fo difficult 

 to be perceiv'd, that there is no way to find it out but by counting the threads. 

 And yet this difference in a great quantity comes to a great deal. For it is no- 

 thing to coufèn a Crown or two Crowns, in a piece that comes but to fifteen 

 or twenty Crowns. Thofe that whiten thefe Calicuts, to fave charges of a 

 few Limons, will knock the Calicuts exceffively upon a Stone, which does fine 

 Calicuts a great injury, and loars the price. 



As for their Calicuts dy'd blew or black, you muft take care that the Work- 

 men do not knock them after they are folded, to make them look fltek ; for many 

 times when they come to be unfolded, you fhall find holes in the creafès. 



As for your painted and printed Calicuts, which are painted and printed as 

 they come out of the Loom, the Merchant muft take care that what he be- 

 fpeaks be finifh'd before the end of the Rains, for the thicker the Water is 



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