CHAPTER I.

ON THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF THE PUNJAB, AND THE ADVANTAGES OF OPENING THE INDUS.

Favourable Position of the Punjab for Trade.--Extent and Variety of its Productions--Shawls of Cashmere.--Extent of the Manufacture.--Silks.--Cottons.--Minerals.--Vegetables.-- Advantages of opening the Indus to the Punjab Trade.--Effects of it on the Towns of the Indus.--Articles brought into Demand by it.--Cotton.--Chintses.--Jewellery, Cutlery, &c.--Depôt for a Water Commerce.--Political Condition of the Country 395-412

CHAP. II.

ON THE COMMERCE OF CABOOL.

Routes from India on Cabool.--Carriers of the Trade.-- Imports.--Disposition of the Cabool Chiefs towards their Extension.--Remarks 413-421

CHAP. III.

ON THE COMMERCE AND FOREIGN COMMUNICATIONS OF BOKHARA AND CENTRAL ASIA.

Progress of Commerce between Europe and Asia.--Success of the Russians.--British Indian Trade.--Alteration of the Routes of Commerce.--Negotiations of Russia.--Exports from India and Russia to Bokhara.--Prices of Merchandize.--Chintses.--White Goods.--Broad Cloth.--Velvets.--Nankeens. Cochineal.--Indian Goods.--Muslins.--Shawls.--Indigo.--Sugar.--Trade with China.-- Exports of Bokhara.--Silk.--Cotton.--Wool.--Skins.--Duties on Trade.--Abuses in the British Custom House.--General Review.--Russian and British Trade compared.--Opening for British Exports 422-444

CHAP. IV.

NOTICE ON THE TRADE OF PERSIA.

State of Commerce in Persia.--Routes, and their relative Advantages.--Description of Goods.--Hints for improving the Trade.--Singular Instance of commercial Enterprise related 445-454

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Observations on Lieutenant Burnes’s Collection of Bactrian and other Coins, by Mr. H. H. Wilson, Sanscrit Professor at Oxford; and Mr. James Prinsep, F.R.S., Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 457

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