1 90 commerce, &c., OF THE PUNJAUB.
2 of a fair system of collection of dues and tolls
3 has at all times rendered the gross revenue pre-
4 carious and infinitely below what would be ob- .
5 tained by an active, wise, and liberal administra-
6 tion. The goods imported from British India in
7 quantities proportioned to the good understanding
8 that may subsist with Affghanistan and other
9 parts of Central Asia, are cotton, woollens, sugar,
10 spices, dye-stuffs, silks, ivory, glass, hardware,
11 copper, and iron vessels and utensils, precious
12 stones, drugs, and groceries. Those that come
13 across the Khyber mountains into the Punjaub,
14 are gold, silver, horses, the lapis lazuli, cochineal,
15 madder, safflower, assafcetida, fruits, wool, Russian
16 cloths and hardware, silk, and some coarse cloths.
17 The exports from the Punjaub are grain, hides
18 (of animals that have died, for the slaughter of
19 kine is prohibited), wool, silk and cotton fabrics,
20 ghee, indigo, horses, shawls, and carpets. At
21 the risk of repetition it may be stated, that the
22 principal marts of the commerce of the country
23 are Mooltan, Umritzur, Leia, and Lahore. The
24 trade is carried on with the north-west and south-
25 east by means of camels, mules, and donkeys ;
26 but from one part of the Punjaub to another, the
27 five rivers afford the readiest channels of transport,
28 and from the south to the western point of the
29 territory of Scinde, Cutch, and Western India,
30 the boats of the Indus convey the produce and.
31 manufactures.