BOOK III.ON THE COMMERCE OF CENTRAL ASIA.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 Country395-412CHAP. II.ON THE COMMERCE OF CABOOL.Routes from India on Cabool.—Carriers of the Trade.—Imports.—Disposition of the Cabool Chiefs towards their Extension.—Remarks413-421CHAP. 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.—Negotiationsof 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 Exports422-444CHAP. 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 related445-454Observations 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 Bengal457
BOOK III.ON THE COMMERCE OF CENTRAL ASIA.
BOOK III.
ON THE COMMERCE OF CENTRAL ASIA.