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VEPAL. 2S3 in salt, £34,16.4; cattle, £14,115; sugar, £23,113; raw cotton, £13,861; brass and copper, £19,292. The total exports into Bengal for 1882–83 were valued at £787,219, chiefly cattle (£45,895), rice (156,196), paddy (£85,326), hides and skins (£30,000), ghi (£30,000), linseed (£63,944), and timber (£97,185). Manufactured silk goods were ted from Bengal in the same year to the value of 4,11,286; in the previous year to the value of £5255; and in 1980-81, £5504. The total traffic in tobacco between Nepal and Bengal was 2,500,000 lbs. in respect of weight. The timber trade is carried on mostly through Champaran; other routes are through Mirzapur in Darbhanga, and Mirganj in Purniah. The value of the woollens sent to Nepál from Bengal was £33,642 in 1$82–83. In 1877–78, the total imports into Nepál from the North-ll'estern Provinces and Oudh were valued at $176,000, chiefly piece-goods, salt, metals, and sugar. The total exports into the North-Western Provinces and Oudh were in that year valued at £.352,000, including foodgrains to the aggregate weight of nearly 22,000 tons. The correspond ures for 1882-83 are as follows:-Total imports into Nepál from the North-Western Provinces, £256,682 ; total exports from Nepál into the North-Western Provinces, £576,610. The addition of the figures for Bengal gives a grand total of £1,686,000 for the registered trade of Nepál both ways in 1877–78, and of £2,176,263 for the same trade in SS2-S3. The gain to British traders engaged in the traffic between the North-Western Provinces and Nepál is officially estimated at £100,000 yearly Coinage and Currency: - The current silver coin in Nepál is the mohar, two of which go to the Mohri rupee. The intrinsic value of the mohar is 6 ánnás s pies of British Indian currency. The Mohri rupee is not an actual coin, bit merely a matter of account, its minor denoninations being as follows :-- 4 dams= I pice; 4 pice = 1 anná; 16 vinnás=ı Mohri rupee. Three different kinds of copper pice are coined, all of which circulate in British territory. Along the tract from Bahraich to Champáran, the current coin of exchange is the Bhútwaliya or Gorakhpuri pice, a square lump of purified copper, roughly cut by hand, with an apology for a stamp; 75 of these coins go to the Indian rupee, ie. they stand to the Indian pice as 75 to 72; but they are so popular with the people, that traders cannot pass Indian pice into Nepál, except at the rate of 9 pice for 2 ánnís, or a discount of 1 in 8. These Bhútwaliya pice are made at Tansen, in the Pálpa District of Nepal. In the extreme east and north-east, the common coin is the black or Lohiya pice, of which 107 go to the Indian rupee. These are of no better shape or manufacture than the Bhutwaliya pice, and they are of less value, owing to the large admixture of iron. There are several mints for their production in the eastern hills, the best known being that of