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O'l the Stur'nstt'cs of Du/,hiin. 



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Loogreli or Sailiehs*, varying in lenglli iVom 13 to 'JO cubits, inbroatllh 

 from \ i to 24 oubiis, in piico from Ij iiipoe to 80 i iipoos, hail a wi- 

 der tieKl of proddclioii, even l\)ona protluiing these dresses, from one or 

 two U^oms only I believe, of the value of SO rupees. New Hot)blcp, 

 and Shahpoor, in the DharwarooUectorate, producetl sonic dresses of the 

 value of 30 rupees. CAo'/.//// or bosom elotlis are manufactured at the 

 above places : the highest value of one would ajipear to be 10 rupees, 

 and the lowest about three-pence. The silk handkerchiefs were chiefly 

 from the Carnatic. 



The price of the above articles is influenced partly by the colours, 

 partly by the fineness of the fabric, but chiefly by the quantity of gold 

 and silver thread worked up in theni. 



Some cotton carpets are manufactured at Ahmed nuggur, and in the 

 Jail at Poona, but do not call for notice. 



Turbands are dyed of twenty-one colours, but I have not space to give 

 the names: few or none of them are fast coloius, wilh the exception of 

 black and red. 



The only woollen manufacture in the colleclorates is that of a black 

 smooth blanket, ( h'uinli e) \]w colour b(M*ng that of the wool. In ge- 

 neral the blanket is coarse, but there is a very fine fabric from Bijapoor. 

 The low state of manufactures is otherwise attested by the fact that, in 

 the Poona collectorate, in the popniation returns sent to me, the weavers 

 only amounted to 0'3') per cent, of the people, or one weaver for every 

 2S0 souls ; in Khandesh 0-5/ percent., or one to every 173 inhabitants ; 

 nnd in Dharwar 1-80 per cent., or one in 55 inhabitants, which is prodi- 

 giously above the other collectorates. I estimate the proportion in the 

 Ahmednuggur collectorate to be the same as that in Poona. 



Tranait Duties. 



The transit duties are farmed ; the stations for collecting them are 

 numerous; the rates, although fixed, are nnjust, as they are not levied 

 on uniform principles with respect to definite tracts of country. The 

 Carrier is not only interrupted at irregular intervals by British stations, 

 but the alienated towns, so numerously interspersed in the British terri- 

 tories, endeavour tolevy duties; moreover, he is perplexed by the money 

 claims of hereditary district officers upon the duties, independently of 

 the customs-farmer's dues. How the conflicting interests are arranged 

 I do not know ; but they are so various and troublesome, that the mer- 

 chant is commonly driven to the expensive necessity of contracting with 



* Women's dresses. 



