Bombay.] 



ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



15? 



Loug cloths, half pieces 320 



Lemiimnnccs , B S00 



Musters 4,00 



Nuusarces R 400 



Negancpauts 40 0 



Niceannees, large fioo 



Ditto, small 600 



Salempores 400 



Stuff*, hrown .R 400 



Tupseila, large... 400 



Ditto, small 600 



northward of Bombay. They nre usually denominated Surat piece-goods, 

 and exported from thence and Bombay to Europe, the Arabian and Persian 

 Gulphs, the Malay Coast, and various other parts of India: they are in general 

 coarse coloured goods, prohihited for home consumption in Great Britain. 



The demand for So rat piece-goods has much decreased in Europe, in 

 consequence of the improved state of the British manufactures, which have 

 materially interfered with them ; and, from the abolition of the slave-trade, 

 the demand for the African market is much reduced. 



The following are the species imported into England from Bombay, 

 with the number of pieces allowed to a ton. 



Ainajbalchits II 400 



Bombay stuffs , R 400 



Byrampauts 400 



Bejutapauts R 400 



Brawls 1200 



Betelleea 400 



Chelloes R 400 



Chintz, of sorts R 400 



Booties R 400 



Guinea Stuffs, 4£ yards each 1200 



J.oug cloths, whole pieces 160 



N. B. When the letter R is set against pieces of 400 to a ton, it shews 

 those goods are to be reduced, or brought to a standard of 16 yards long, 

 and I broad ; where it is against pieces of 800 to the ton, to 10 yards long, 

 and 1 broad. 



Example. — 1000 pieces of 12 yards long, and \ \ broad, at 400 pieces 

 to the ton, make 84-1- pieces, or 2 tons, 44 pieces; and 1000 pieces of \0\ 

 yards by l£ t at 800 to a ton, are 1181 pieces, or 1 ton, 381 pieces. 



Considerable quantities of coarse white piece-goods have been manu- 

 factured in the Travancore country, and shipped for England from Anjengo; 

 they are blended with those of Surat. 



Putchock. — Of this article, a fleshy root, considerable quantities are 

 annually sent from the W. side of India to China, where it is used in their 

 temples, having, when burnt, a pleasant and grateful smell. It is in general 

 full of sticks and dirt. 



Radix Lope zi ana is a root produced on the Malabar Coast, and 

 brought from Goa, in pieces about two inches thick, of which the woody 

 part is lightish and white, the medullary part more dense and reddish. The 

 bark is rough, wrinkled, brown, soft, and apparently woolly, covered with a 

 paler cuticle ; it has no striking smell or taste. When boiled in water, the 

 liquor Is of a yellow hue, almost insipid, impressing the tongue with a very 



