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The imports by these two roads were last year rather over Rs. 3,00,000 in value, and consisted almost entirely of rice, which, as this is a great rice-exporting district, must eventually have passed through to Nawabganj, to be sent from there to the west. SaduUalmagar.

The exports were cloth, hides,

and

Pts. 2,50,000, and the main staples country This includes the Rapti river traffic which is

in value

cotton.

registered at Materia.

Between the point where the Thiana leaves the district and the Gogra as has been stated, a space of between 35 and 40 miles of unprotected frontier. In the Basti district, in this direction, are the bazars of Belna and Sarnamganj. All the Babhnipair produce which is exported escapes registration. Of this a part goes through a village called Dumaipur into a

lies,

Basti road leading to Sarn'amganj ; part cuts across the corner of Amorha pargana between the parganas of Nawabganj and Babhnipair, and finds From Shahits way to the considerable bazar of Shahganj in this district. ganj goods are exported partly to the Belna bazar in Basti, with which it is connected by a good road, and partly by the Gogra to Bengal.

This summary covers all the trade lines between this district and other provinces, with the exception of the great river route to lower Bengal.

The main depot

for this is undoubtedly Nawabganj, from which goods are shipped at any one of four ferries, the Raj Naia, Lachhman, and Mohna Ghats, which the existing course of the river makes most convenient.

A

registration office is kept up at Mohna Ghat for the six months of the year during which the Miran Ghat bridge is down. In the other months the barrier registration is considered sufficient. The returns of the Mohna Ghat registration last year (1869-70) showed exports to the value of Rs. 13,60,969, chiefly Indian-corn, peas, oil-seeds, and hides, and imports to the value of Rs. 37,553, of which nearly Rs. 30,000 were for salt.

Besides the exports from Nawabganj there can be no doubt that considerable quantities are shipped at ghdts further up the river, such as those near Colonelganj, and timber and hides are exported still higher up. Again, some exportation goes on lower down at the Lakarmandi Ghat from the Shahganj bazar. The chief trade of the district is probably with Cawnpore, and beyond that the cotton country of Berar or the North- West Provinces. As it passes through other parts of Oudh before leaving the province, there is no registration and no means of gauging its extent. Its two principal lines are from the western and Bahraich Tarai through Bahraich or Balrampur to Colonelganj, and from the eastern and Basti Tarais through Utraula to Nawabganj. By these routes immense quantities: of the fine rice district. Most of it of the Sub-Himalayan low lands are poured out of the bazars but the farmer will often is sold to grain factors at the principal load of cheap cotton drive his cart as far as Cawnpore and bring back a merchant and the husbandman. stuffs, and combine in his own person the The principal ferries across the Gogra by which this trade leaves the It is probable that the railway to district have already been enumerated. opposite bazar of Nawabganj. the it at concentrate to tend Fyzabad will

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