Coast from Cambay.] ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



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inhabitants are numerous, composed of all nations, who carry on a trade 

 with many parts of India. Large quantities of piece-goods manufactured at 

 Ahmedabad, and cotton, are annually shipped from hence to Bombay. 

 Cambay is the only place where cornelian stones are procured. 



Trade. — Besides the before-named articles, the chief exports to British 

 India are ghee, grain, oils, putchock, seeds, tobacco, soap, shawls, drugs, 

 horses, Sec. The chief imports from thence are betel-nut, woollens, metals, 

 coco-nuts, piece-goods, pepper, silk, sugar, ivory, spices, drugs, and 

 treasure. 



Dcties, Port Charges, &c. — The following customs are paid by the 

 English on goods sold here 



Company's duty 2 per cent. 



Consulage 2 ditto. 



Commission to the chief 2£ ditto. 



Brokerage 2 per cent, 



Dustoor, cooly hire, &c 1 ditto. 



Coins. — Gold mohurs, rupees, and pice, are the current coin ; 48 pice 

 make 1 rupee. For small change, a species of almond, called Baddam, 

 brought from Persia, is used in the same maimer as cowries at Bengal ; the 

 general rate is about 60 per pice. 



Foreign coins are taken according to weight ; their price varying in 

 proportion to the supply and demand. 



Weights. — The Cambay weights are the same as those of Surat, sub- 

 ject to a difference in the allowance on goods bought and sold, thus — 



At Surat, metal is... 40 seers to the maund. 



At Cambay 40 seers 1 1£ pice to ditto ; 



besides a rebate of % per cent, on the whole weight 



Measures. — The long measures are the cubit, about 18 inches, and 

 the guz, of 28, or in the bazar, of 28} inches. 



JUMBASEER. — This road lies in latitude 21° 49' N,, and may be 

 known by a pagoda on the N. side of the river called Diu. The marks for 

 anchoring are the pagoda N. E. by E., Jumbaseer point E. by N\, in 7 

 fathoms water. The tide rises from 33 to 36 feet perpendicular. The town 

 is situated up the river, from wheuce a great trade is carried on in cotton, 

 piece-goods, grain, and oil, with Bombay and other places. 

 % BAltOALTI is about 8 leagues up the River Nerbudda on its N. side : 

 half-way between the town and the sea, the river divides itself into two 

 branches, and forms a long and narrow island, on each side of which they 

 run into the Gulph of Cambay, in the direction of E. S. E. and W. S. W. 



SURAT is on the S. side of the River Taptee, about 20 miles from 

 the sea. Vaux's Tomb, on Swalley Point, the N. side of the entrance of 



