Remonstrantie 3.2

3.2

Allahabad (150 kos), produces no commodities, and has very little trade, but is rather a pleasure-resort. King Akbar built a very fine fort here, because it is the meeting-place of the three famous rivers, the Ganges, the Jumna, and [blank in MS.]. Jaunpur (25 kos further), produces and exports large quantities of cotton goods, such as turbans, girdles, white chelas, zelal, t'sey, and coarse carpets. Benares (5 kos further), also produces girdles, turbans, clothes for Hindu women, t'soekhamher, gangazil (a white cloth); also copper pots, dishes, basins, and other articles for use in Hindu houses. Oudh (3 kos further), furnishes rather coarse cloth in pieces of 16 gaz ['yards' of about 32 inches]. Lakhawar (15 kos further), produces ambertees, a superior grade of white cloth, 14 gaz long and of different widths, worth from four to ten rupees the piece.