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 PAR 103 Exports and imports. — Besides grain, opium, tobacco, sugar, and molasses, oil, and ghí, cattle, sheep, and timber are by no means unimportant staples of export trade. On the other hand, the imports consist mainly of salt, cotton, metals, and hardware, country cloth, and dyes. English stuffs aud piece-goods are also becoming more and more common in the local bazars. All the abuve almost entirely find their way into the district from the opposite side of the Ganges. The traffic by way of the adjoin- ing districts of Jaunpur on the east, and of Sultanpur and Rae Bareli on the north and west respectively is, comparatively speaking, inconsiderable. In connection with this subject, Mr. King writes as follows :- be made, and to show the direction which traffic takes in this district. Oudh exports grain, oil-seed, sugar, and tobacco, some timber and little beside. These mainly go in a south-east direction towards Gorakhpur, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, and Mirzapur. Lines drawn from the north-west to the south-east of Oudh will mainly represent the direction in which produce moves. Of course, I am speaking in general terms. Roads will often be diverted owing to the presence or absence of a ferry or other cause. Imports into Oudh are chiefly salt, cotton, English cloth, and other miscellaneous matters. Salt and cotton come in by western and south-western routes from Cawnpore, Bánda, &c. “ In the Partabgarh district, the main Ganges ferries, where this traffic passes, are Badshắhpur, Kharolí,* Kálákánkar, Gutni, and Jahánabad; and at all of these traffic-registrars are placed. The traffic from this quarter finds a sufficiency of routes to the interior of Oudh by tolerable roads, but the out traffic wants a channel towards Jaunpur, and a new road should be opened out from Patti to the border of the district some- where about Rája-ka-bazár in the Parhat estate of Rája Mahesh Naráin, and, in communication with the Jaunpur authorities, be carried ou so as to reach Jaunpur." Mineral products. This branch may be said to comprise salt, saltpetre, and kankar. There is a considerable area of saliferous land in the Par- tabgarh district. Salt.—The manufacture of salt in Oudh is. punishable under the excise laws. The following salt statistics furnished by Mr. King are interesting. After remarking that as an article of food it was formerly "extensively manufactured in this district, and that the annual value of the manufacture to the native government, or farmer, was Rs. 72,000," my predecessor writes - “Mr. Braddon, Superintendent of Excise and Stamps, in a pamphlet on Oudh salt, gives the area of salt-producing lands in Partabgarh, thus - Bighas. 3,287 . 1,121 4,408 .. Total the latter.
 * It may not be out of place here to suggest what new roads should
 * Highly saliferous
 * Moderately
 * This is close to the Kandráwan or Naubasta ferry and is of far less importance than