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The details are given in the following table, but a few remarks must be added. In the first place, these returns do not show the actual exports and imports of the district at all they indicate the course of river trade at marts within the district bovmdary. The internal trade by road 'or river with other parts of Oudh is not given. For instance, Fyzabad exports a vast quantity of opium, but this goes by rail to Lucknow its amount is large portion 300,000 sers, its value to Government above Es. 40,00,000. of this is produced in Fyzabad itself, but none of it is credited in the trade returns, nor is the railway traffic which really belongs to Fyzabad shown in their returns. These again exhibit Fyzabad as a large importer of sugar it really produces more than is required for its own consumption. The fact is, that the sugar of Bas,ti and Azamgarh passes through Fyzabad



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westwards to Lucknow, whence it is distributed to Cawnpore and Bareli. Country cloth is largely exported from Tanda timber is exported really from Kheri and Bahraich, but is credited to Fyzabad, as the logs are floated down the river Gogra and counted within the Fyzabad territories. The grain exported is mostly rice, maize, and wheat, but much of it comes from Sultanpur to the south, much from Gonda to the north; it is embarked in Fyzabad, which acts as an emporium for eastern Oudh. The actual exports of the district cannot be determined its large population probably consumes most of its produce. In the last official return the produce is estimated at 2,782,092 maunds, of which the consumption is only 1,729,980, but this represents a produce of only 3| maunds per acre, and a consumption of 1 J maunds, or 120ft>s. per head per annum both are impossible figures. An average crop in Fyzabad will be at least seven maunds per acre, and average consumption per head of entire population 240ft)s. per annum. I notice the matter here because the statement that Fyzabad, or indeed any ordinary district in Oudh, exports, or can export 38 per cent, of its produce, seems a misapprehension, which might some time lead to erroneous confidence, and in times of scarcity to inac;





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