MYSORE, CANARY, AND MALABAR. 
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richer Skaynagaru with the Nagarit, they acknowledged that this CHAPTER 
statement was true. 
The places from whence agents are at present employed to pur- 
chase cloths are Niagara , ChatraJcal, Seringapatam , Chin’ -ray a-pat- 
tana, Sira, Madkugiri, and Demmd-hully . A small quantity of cotton 
and silk cloth for women’s jackets goes to the lower Carnatic. This 
is the account of the Nagarit ; Jbut I have good reason to think, 
that a very large quantity of goods, especially of the silk manu- 
facture called Combawutties, are sent to that country, and are much 
in request among the women of the rich Brahmans . The Nagarit 
say, that the merchants, who import cotton, take away silk cloths 
for the dress of the Brahmans of both sexes, and also blue and red 
cotton stuffs ; but not in a quantity sufficient to repay the whole 
June 22, &c. 
Manufac- 
tures, where 
sold. 
cotton. During the former government of the Raja's family much 
cloth went from this neighbourhood to Tanjore } Negapqtgm, and 
other parts of the southern Carnatic but since that period, this 
commerce has been entirely at a stop. 
The Mangalore merchants send hither for every kind of cloth. 
The dress of that country requires cloth only eight cubits long. 
The pieces intended for that market, have therefore a blank left in 
their middle. In Hyder's time there was a great exportation of 
cloth to Calicut i but the troubles in Mialabar have put an entire 
stop to this branch of commerce. 
The accompanying price current of the different kinds of cloth p r j C e of the 
made at Bangalore is only applicable to those made for common di ff ere t ntma - 
salec Pei sons who wish for particularly fine goods may, by com- Bangalore. 
missioning them, have them made at four times the highest price 
stated here, or at any intermediate value. 
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