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Weights. — The weights are seers and maunds, the latter of two sorts, 

 Cutch and Pucca. 



2 Pice equal to 1 Anna, 



16 Annas « 1 Cutch Seer. 



40 Seers .. 1 Cutch Maund, avoirdupois 37 J lbs. 



The Pucca maund b 2 Cutch maunds, and 20 Cutch maunds are equal 

 to 1 Surat candy. 



Measures. — The measures are the grab and the guz, 16 grahs making 

 1 guz, about 34 English inches. Broad cloth, velvet, silks, &c. are sold by 

 this measure ; though the shopkeepers in the bazar often sell by hand, from 

 the finger's end to the elbow, &c. : this is rejected by the merchants. 



The Coast of Guzerat, from the head of the Gulph of Cutch, to the 

 islands near Jigat Point, is but little known. 



BATE. — This island, and that of Artura, are situated about 10 miles 

 N. E. from Jigat Point, and with the main form the harbour of Rate, 

 which is well sheltered from all winds. The entrance to it is in latitude 

 22* 31' N., where there is, directly to the N. of Artura, about a mile dis- 

 tant, the bar, having on it near high water, 3^ and 3f fathoms, rocky 

 bottom, and outside of it, at half a mile distant, 14 and 16 fathoms. The 

 bland is about five miles long from N. E. to S. W., somewhat in the shape 

 of the letter S, with the lower part of it cut oft'; the fort is situated on the 

 W. side of the island, and is a place of considerable strength. A ship 

 drawing 17 feet water, can get within half a mile of it; but the passage Is 

 narrow and dangerous. The latitude of the castle is 22° 28 1' N. ; the lon- 

 gitude 69° 20 E. 



Trade. — Bate produces coco-nuts, betel-nut, and grain, but in small 

 quantities, and some trade is carried on, in dates, sugar, and rice, in dows, 

 having the Rajah of Bate's pass. 



JIGAT. — Jigat Point is in latitude 22 J 20 N., and longitude 69^ 16 E. 

 On it is a pagoda ; the place where it stands was formerly called Jigat 

 More, but now by the Hindoos, Dorecur. At a distance the pagoda has 

 very much the appearance of a ship under sail. In the vicinity of it are a 

 number of small buildings, probably tombs. The wall of the pagoda 

 extends to the sea-beach, and can be approached very near by a vessel ; but 

 there h no anchoring with safety, it being all rocky ground. Great num- 

 bers of pilgrims from the interior visit Jigat pagoda, and are supplied with 

 necessaries from Goomtee and Bate — About a gun-shot within the pagoda is 



GOOMTEE,— The town is strongly fortified, and is the place where 



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