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hills* The river is not large, and by emptying itfelf in fc\'eral chan 
4icl3, is rendered very Hiallow at the bar. In the dry monfoon it wil^ 
not admit Iwats of any burthen, Bluch lefs large veflels, which lie with- 
out, in the road fornied by the ifliinds off the point. Though no lon- 
ger the great mart of caftern commodities, it flill carries- on a confide- 
rable trade with the natives of that part of the coaft of Indojian called 
prtftnt ftate of Telmga, who fupply it with the cotton goods of their country, and re- 
lucommcice, (.^jy^ return, gold duft, fapan wood, betel-nut, patch-leaf,* a little 
pepper^ fulphur, camphire, and benjamin. The two laft are carried 
thither from the ports of Smkeli and Tappoos ; and the pepper from places 
more to the fouthward, Acheen itfclf not producing any in thefe days, 
nor in much abundance at any former period, though cargoes were of- 
ten taken in From thence. There are employed in this commerce, from 
iix to ten felinga fnows, of an hundred and fifty or two hundred tons 
burthen, which arrive annually about Auguft, and fail again in February 
and March, They are not permitted to touch at any places on the 
Eaft or Weft coaft, that are under the king of Acheen's jurifdiftion, 
as he would fuffer both in the profits of the trade, the port cuftoms, 
and the prefents ufually made on the arrival of ve^Is, which. In that 
cafe, his dependants would fiiarc witli him. The people of Acheen 
themfclvcs carry the cloth to thefe markets, after the kihg's duties, and 
other advantages have been received, who is, as is ufual with the princes 
in this part of the world, the chief merchant of his Capital, and fre- 
quently the monopolizer of it's trade. There is like wife a Ihip from Surat 
every year, and fometimes two, the property of Moor-men there. The 
country is fupplicd with Bengal opium, and alfo with iron, and many 
other articles of merchandjEc, by the European traders, 
Af, Acheen is efleemed, comparatively, healthy, being more free from 
woods and fwamps than mo ft other portions of the ifland ; and the fevers 
and dyfenteries to which thefe are fuppofed to give occafioh, are there 
faid to be uncommon. BiTt this muft not be too readily credited ; for 
he degree of falubrity attending fituations in that climate, from infcrti- 
table caufesj is known fo frequently to alter, that a perfon who has re- 
• Thii it tlw ^ifebmbaut or ofjlm Indkus, and called diium by the MalajK, 
fided 
