1 2^ TRADK
2 Jypon and die countries ttUl fiflcthar: MUftlit coam to flbakupaKi
3 Balwiralpoor, ami MoultflMn s-.«nd, that nHnch b carried an faj leav
4 comes to Koratchcc, and thence to Shekarpoor and Candahar. :
5 The principal foreign d'ade of the kingdom of Caubul is with ImUi^
6 ^«raia» and Toorkiataun. (Independent and C^hinese). Some triflinf^
7 comrtieroe is kept up with CoufiBriatium. A sort of cloth, made of
8 shawl wool, called Ussul Toos, is imported from Tibet; and the porta
9 of Sind keep up some intercourse with Arabia. . >
10 The trade with liindostan is by £u the most oonaidenfale^ tlypygli
11 it has declined of late vears.
12 The exports to India are principallv horse'; ami poiievs, furs, shawls*
13 Mooltaun chintz, madder, assa toetida, tobacco, almonds, Pistacliio
14 nuts, walnuts, hazel nut^ and fruits. The fnn'ts arc ^uiierally dried,
15 (as dried plums, and apricots, raisins, and kishmishes), but a large
16 quantity is also fresh. In that case, it is puUed before it is quite
17 ripe, and caretully jxicked witli cotton m woodeu box^ The fniits
18 exjx>rted in this manner are apples, pt-ais, aiul coarse grapes. Vo-
19 megranates require no packing, and no uLhei Iruil will stand the
20 journey : even these, lose most of their flavour. The principal ex-
21 port is that of shawls, which are worn by every man in India who
22 cm a£R>id to buy them, and which are made in no place but Cash^
23 ^le tmporta from Indie en ooene cotton cbllia, (worn by die
24 common people of the whole kipgiloint aa weU by thoaeof Tooiw
25 Idataun), mnduM, and oUhcr fine.inainifiictone«> lome aoite of. aOken
26 doth and brocade^ indigo (in great quantities), iraiy, chalky ^^fm^mi
27 wax, tin, landal wood, and afanoat the angar which, ia naed in the
28 oottntiy. Some little brood doth ia alao imported ; hot moat, oomea
29 bjthe wayof BoUianie: Muak, oonJ, drn^ and adme other'trifliiig
30 aitideiBf are alao impcHrted< A very greet branch of the ladien im%
31 porta ore the qwces of all 1dnda,.whidi axe.canied finm Bonbaj, ind.
32 other places on the Malabar coast, to Koratdiee or other ports in -
33 Sind, .and :thenoe .fay lend to Canbiil aiyl Omdahar* : Afanoat all th^
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