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 European denominations ; as well as for iungis [head and waist- cloths], and other native fabrics. Multan is noted for cotton pile carpets, and printed and hand-painted calicoes or chintzes, and native dhotis [waist-cloths] with a red printed border. But the most important seat of all the finer cotton weaving is the Jalandhar Doab, comprising the districts of Hushiarpur, Jal- andhar, and Kangra, between the Satlaj and the Bias. Here, as everywhere throughout India, the competition of Manchester has caused fatal injury to the local manufacture, but still the fine gaits [diapers] of Rabun, and the muslin turbans of Baj- warn are celebrated even in Hindustan. A coarse cloth called khada [which literally means u woven "] is also largely exported from the Doab to the hills beyond Kulu and Spiti. In other parts of the Panjab there is an equal demand for this cloth for the markets of Cabul and Turkestan, and other towns through which the Paracha merchants pass between Bengal and Central Asia. In this way the districts of Jhang, in the Retclma Doab, between the Ravi and Chenab, and of Shah pur, especially the town of Kushab, in the Jetch Doab, between the Chenab and Jhilam, have a considerable trade in khada y and chintzes and printed fabrics are also much in demand and are largely exported. Multan, which is a great rendezvous of the Povinda merchants of the new frontier district of the Panjab, has a considerable trade in them, as indeed in all the articles that are exported from India into Central Asia, The district of Gugaira, and especially the towns of Sy ad walla and Pak-Pattan, in the D era] at, between the Indus and Suleiman bills, are noted for the weaving of lunghis, and khesis [wrappers or robes]. Kushab in Shapur is also noted for its iungis both silk and cotton. The iungis of Peshawar are famous, and the dark blue scarf with its -crimson edge, woven in the valley of Kohat, south of Peshawar, is, observes Mr, Baden Powell, very characteristic. A similar scarf, both plain and ornamented with a gold border, is woven, in the Hazara hills north of Rawul Pindh It is estimated that from 5,000 to