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great quantities of betel-nut, black pepper, fandal-wood, and cardamoms, partly bythe merchants of Bangalore , and partly by thofe of the Nagara diftrict. The returnsfrom hence are grain, tobacco, tamarinds, blankets, mullins, turbans, colouredcotton fluffs, and filks, the manufacture of this place; and the paper of the LowerCarnatic. Both parties prefer felling their goods by wholefale, and laying in theirreturning inveflment by the fame means ; but they are feldom able to do fo, andare more commonly reduced to the neceffity of leaving part of their goods in thehands of an agent, and of purchafing their new inveftments at the different weeklymarkets in the country. Three quarters of the returns from Bangalore to Nagara aremade in cafh.

From Seringapatam the imports to Bangalore are black pepper, fandal-wood, andcardamoms : the return is made in every kind of cloth manufactured here, with allthe kinds of goods brought from the Lower Carnatic, to a far greater value than thatof the goods imported from Seringapatam .

From Gubi and its neighbourhood, in the centre of the Raja’s dominions, areimported pepper, betel-nut, and cocoa-nuts. The merchants of Bangalore make thepurchafes at the weekly markets, and carry with them chiefly money ; but alfo turmeric,the produce of this place; and oxen from Hoffo-cotay, and Colar.

To Chatrakal (Chittledroog) the merchants of Bangalore fend the manufacturesof the place, and in return receive country blankets. The dealers carry their owngoods from one place to the other, and generally return with the produce in cafh.

From Doda Balla-pura occafional traders bring fine red cotton cloth manufacturedthere, and take back the produce in money.

From Namagundla, beyond Nandi-durga, are brought jagory, raw fugar, andlugar-candy, which are alfo fold for cafh.

The places eaft from Bangalore , fuch as Colar, and Nurfapura, fend money, andprocure betel-nut and black pepper.

Betel-nut is the principal article of trade at Bangalore , and is of two kinds; thebelt, called defhavara, comes from the Nagara diftriCt; the inferior quality is calledwallagram, and comes from Gubi, and all the places fouth from Sira, and north fromMadura. This laft is chiefly referved for country ufe: but the defhavari is difperfedthrough the country to the eaftward, as far as Madras. It is all what is calledboiled nut.

In this country black pepper is next to betel-nut, the moft common article ofcommerce. Of this alfo there are two kinds, the codali, and baygadi; the differencein value is inconfiderable, but the codali is reckoned rather the bell. Much of it isfent down to the Baramahal, and to the dominions of the Nabob of Arcot. This wasone of the articles in which the Sultan traded.

Sandal-wood is alfo a confiderable article of commerce at Bangalore . The beltcomes from the Nagara diftrict, and from the country bordering on the wefternGhats. An inferior kind comes from Madura, Denkina-cotay, Deva-rayana-cotay, andother places in the ridge of hills which run north from Capala-durga. Each kind isdivided into three forts: the firft is that which is between the root and firft branches ; thefecond is that of the large branches ; and the third is that of the fmall branches, fo faras thefe contain red wood. The fandal tree, according to the idea of the natives, is oftwo kinds ; male and female : the former of which is dark, the latter pale-coloured $both are of the fame value. The fandal of the old tree is faid to be more valuablethan that from a young one; but the merchants, in forming an eftimate of its value,

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