63G Statislics of the Circar of Doivlulahad. [No. 36, 



Not being able to procure the amount of exports and imports, it is 

 impossible to draw conclusions as to the state of trade between the 

 Nizam's countrj', and the Company's, and I must therefore defer do- 

 ing so until in possession of these documents. 



The principal return trade of grain from Bombay is salt and iron. 

 From inquiries in each Purgunnah, I have been able to calculate the 

 amount annually consumed of salt as about 11,607 pullahs 1 md. 

 23 srs., which, with 300 pullahs to be allowed for the consumption of 

 the city of Aurungabad, gives 14,607 pullahs as the gross amount. 

 The consumption of this article upon an average amounted to three 

 quarters of a seer a month, each individual ; the price was 2 dubboo 

 pice a seer. 



Iron is received from Bombay and Bhewndy in sheets and rods^ 

 and from Nerinul in small bars ; nearly the whole is employed for 

 agricultural purposes, very little being used for building. Bullocks 

 are never shod, neither are the tattoos of the villagers. 



The annual consumption of iron as returned to me by the district 

 officers, amount to 425 pullahs 1 md. 36 srs. from Bombay, and 

 178 pullahs 0 md. 34 srs. from Nerinul ; which added to what is 

 expended in the city, viz., 31 pullahs" 0 md. 13 srs. makes in the ag- 

 gregate G38 pullahs 1 md. 26 srs., therefore estimating the land un- 

 der cultivation at 14,18,938 beegahs, there will be found to be ex- 

 pended about 15| pounds of iron upon every square mile of cultiva- 

 tion. 



Sugar Manufactory. 



, , The first part of the process is undertaken by the 



Manufactures. * i J ^ 



farmer upon the field, who there expresses the juice, 

 and boils it to a thick consistency called " Rab," sometimes carry- 

 ing the evaporation further, reducing it to goor or Muscavado sugar, 

 in which state it is disposed of to the Hulwai, or sugar refiners, who 

 deprive it of its impurities, and render it fit for the market. The 

 mills employed for crushing the cane are a great improvement upon 

 those formerly in use, the shattered fragments of which are to this 

 day seen around most of the villages throughout the Circar, supplying 

 in their ruins, the silent evidences of a former flourishing condition 

 of the manufacture of sugar. The old mill was a large block of 

 stone hollowed out, and the juice of the sugar cane very rudely press- 



