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 192 KHE The imports into Kheri from the North-Western Provinces in 1872. consisted of Maunds. Value. Rs. Cotton 28,200 3,81,000 Salt 74,464 4,28,229 Khári* 4,712 22,631 Country cloth ... 1,70,000 English piece-goods 19,101 1. PO 000 Total 11,26,600 The exports Mannds. 29,900 84,000 Tobacco Edible grains Timber Country cloth Sugar Spicest Ra, 72,000 32,000 21,000 28,000 38,683 bed 4,800 6,686 Total 3,69,366 It thus appears that imports are three times as valuable as exports. The only mistakes apparent in the above official return are the valua- tions of tobacco and sugar ; the former ought to be priced at about Rs. 7 per maund instead of three; the latter, which is a coarse article, might fairly be valued at Rs. 2-8-0 instead of Rs. 6-0-0. Still it is evident that the imports largely exceed in value the exports except as regards the oil-seed and grain trade, which passes mainly by the Chauka and Kauriála to Patna and Dinapore. Timber also goes down the Suheli; charcoal down the Gumti to Lucknow. None of these matters are credited to the district. The Kheri grain too, which is loaded on boats at the gháts of the Chauka and Kauriála rivers, is credited to Fyzabad : because in its passage down the Gogra it coasts that district, although it never even passes through it. This defect in the district returns renders them all deceptive. River trade.- The principal gháts or landing places on the Chauka in the Kheri district are Důlhámau and Pachperi on the Chauka and Sbitábi and Katái pháts on the Kauriála. From them grain is exported either to Bahramghat for the local Lucknow demand, or to Dinwan- ghát seven miles west of Fyzabad; from thence other traders take it by rail or river to Lucknow or Patna. Or lastly, grain goes to Simaria ghát fifteen miles west of Patna, near Chupra. The boats.--The traffic is carried on in flat-bottomed boats, of which the smallest are mere hollow sál trees, drawing two and a half to three feet, it is said, when loaded, but certainly floating when empty in twelve inches; they will carry 200 local maunds, or 3,600 sers, or about three tons and a quarter. The next largest size is about 500 maunds or 18,000 lbs, above eight tons: they draw four feet when loaded. The largest size is equal to the carriage of 1,200 local_maunds, or nearly twenty tons; they require four to five feet water. The smallest size costs about Rs. 80, the largest about Rs. 400. They belong to Kahárs called, when practising this • Salphate of Soda. 1 Turmeric.
 * 2,81,000