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12. There are several roads through the Jeypore country to 

 Nagpore, but the road in question is considerably the shortest, and 

 as I have said, were a road made, as almost a matter of course, all 

 the traffic would be attracted to it. The amount of traffic is not 

 very easily estimated. But I judge that annually from 60,000 to 

 70,000 Bullocks pass and repass from Nagpore to the Sea Coast, of 

 which about 12,000 travel by the route, I have been describing. 



13. On their downward journey they carry various articles 

 such as Palagoonda, Sealing-wax, Bee's-wax, Turmeric, Oil-seeds 

 of various kinds, Wheat, Rice, the various kinds of grain, Cotton, 

 Dammer, Soapnut, Deer and BufFaloe horns, Skins, and Iron. 



14. The articles carried back are principally salt, tobacco, salt- 

 fish, opium and cloths. 



15. In my notes I find a Memo, of the places nearest the low 

 country, where Iron-stone is found in large quantity. 



1st. At Dzorapukonda, a village 20 miles from Narrainapatam, 

 and situated in the Kumbariputtee Mootah. At this place there 

 is a quarry. 



2nd. From Loharguda to Dzorapukondah, 12 miles, plenty 

 iron-stone is found, but there are no quarries worked. 



3rd. In the Borigee Mootah, at the village of Bhittarilotsa, 12 

 miles, from Narrainapatam there is a good quarry. 



4th In the Poimals Mootah, at the village of Gummidikondah, 

 15 miles from Narrainapatam there is a good quarry. 



5th. At Biga, 10 miles from Narrainapatam, there is abundanc® 

 of good iron-stone. 



5. The last subject to which I shall allude is the importance of 

 the road, both in a Military and Commercial point of view. With 

 regard to the first, it would effect a saving of about 300 miles on 

 the present route to Nagpore via Secunderabad or in time of about 

 5 weeks, a serious consideration when time is of importance. 



6. In a Commercial point of view the advantages derived would 

 at least be equally great. The traffic to Nagpore is, I have shown, 

 even now very considerable, and there cannot be a doubt that the 

 making of a road would at once cause an immense increase in the 

 trade of Salt, and a considerable decrease in its price, which even 

 at Jeypore is upwards of double that at which it can be procured 

 in the low country. The J eypore country too is capable of very 



