chiefly taken by Ceylon (Rs. 8,67,000), Réunion (Rs. 6,63,000) the Straits Settlements (Rs. 5,23,000), Mauritius (Rs. 4,88,000) and Japan (Rs, 2,76,000). Gingelly oil goes chiefly to Ceylon and France, and castor oil to Britain and Russia. The fibres and the oil-cake go almost entirely to Ceylon. An important item is tobacco, which is sent unmanufactured in large quantities to Burma to be made up into cheroots.
Nearly the whole of the foreign import trade of 1903-04 was made up of unrefined sugar (Rs. 9,69,000), kerosine oil (Rs. 7,47,000) and various kinds of metal and metalware (Rs. 1,40,000). The sugar all came from Java, and the kerosine oil from Russia (Rs. 3,32,000), the United States (Rs. 2,61,000) and Sumatra (Rs. 1,53,000). The metalware was chiefly from the United Kingdom.
The coastwise import trade is small. The largest items were gunny-bags from Calcutta (nearly five lakhs), cotton twist and yarn principally from Bombay (some three lakhs), kerosine oil chiefly from Rangoon (two and a half lakhs), ground-nut oil from Madras ports and cotton piece-goods from Bombay (each about a lakh), and cocoanut oil, also from Madras ports, Rs. 84,000.
The coastwise export trade included thirty-six lakhs' worth of grain and pulse of various sorts, of which five-sixths was rice and the greater part was sent to Bombay. Nearly sixteen lakhs' worth of tobacco leaf was sent to Burma, and gingelly worth nine lakhs (of which two-thirds went to Burma) and castor seeds worth two lakhs (nearly all of which went to Calcutta) were other considerable items.
Outside the remoter parts of the Agency, where regular tables are little used, the following are the ordinary weights and measures in the district. The table employed by goldsmiths is generally: —
4 visams(grains of paddy) ... = 1 pátika 2 pcdikas ... ... ... = I 2 addigas ... ... ... = i 30 chinnanis ... ... ... = i CHAP. VI. Trade. patika. addiga. chtnnam. tola (180 grains.) The ordinary table of commercial weights is as follows: — 2 p am pus 2 yebulams 2 padalams 2 visses 4 yetiedus 20 maunds I ycbulam. I padaJatn, I viss ( = 5 seers, or 120 tolas). I yettedu. I maund (of 25 lb.). I putti (or candy).
