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is sent yearly to China in large quantities. A screw 
is employed in packing the cotton, by which fifteen 
hundred pounds’ weight is reduced to the measure- 
ment of one ton. The screw is worked by a capstan 
which has eight bars., and to each bar there are 
thirty men. 
In the year 1816, the population of Bombay, in- 
cluding natives and all the different foreign races, 
amounted to nearly a hundred and sixty-two thou- 
sand souls, thirteen thousand of which were Parsees* 
In addition to the above aggregate, it is computed that 
from sixty to seventy thousand persons resort to this 
island for commercial purposes, where they take up 
their temporary abode ; and that it is therefore never 
without a floating population averaging the sum of 
those two amounts. 
Some of the wealthy natives live in great splendour, 
having large establishments, and houses so capacious 
as to afford habitations to the families of several 
married children at the same time. 
There is only one English church in Bombay, and 
that is within the fort ; but there are several Portu- 
guese and Arminian churches, both within and with- 
out the walls ; besides which, there are three or four 
small synagogues, the Jewish inhabitants amounting 
to about a thousand. The largest pagoda, a building 
of no very striking beauty, is in the black town, and 
dedicated to Momba Devi. 
The Arminians here form a respectable though not 
a numerous body of Christians. They differ both 
from the Greek and Latin churches, and have, under 
the severest oppressions, like the still more primitive 
