1 OF THS PUNJATJB. 53
2 t3nranny and misgovernment have in a measure
3 blighted the eflForts of the artisan.
4 The transit of goods from countries beyond the
5 Indus to Hindostan, and vine versa, forms a larger
6 source of mercantile revenue than the returns
7 upon the home manufactures upon the country.
8 But in this respect also the paralyzing effect of
9 internal disturbance has been felt, and the want
10 of a fair system of collection of dues and tolls
11 has at all times rendered the gross revenue pre-
12 carious and infinitely below what would be ob-
13 tained by an active, wise, and liberal administra-
14 tion. The goods imported from British India in
15 quantities proportioned to the good understanding
16 that may subsist with Afghanistan and other
17 parts of Central Asia, are cotton, woollens, sugar,
18 spices, dye stuffs, silks, ivory, glass, hardware,
19 copper, and iron vessels and utensils, precious
20 stones, drugs, and groceries. Those that come
21 across the Khyber mountains into the Punjaub,
22 are gold, silver, horses, the lapis lazuli, cochineal,
23 madder, safflower, assafcetida, fruits, wool, Russian
24 cloths and hardware, silk, and some coarse cloths.
25 The exports from the Punjaub are grain, hides
26 (of animals that have died, for the slaughter of
27 kine is prohibited), wool, silk and cotton fabrics,
28 ghee, indigo, horses, shawls, ancf carpets. At
29 the risk of repetition, it may be stated that the
30 principal marts of the commerce of the country