Chapter I

ON THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF THE PUNJAB, AND THE ADVANTAGES OF
OPENING THE INDUS.

Favourable Position of the Punjab for Trade.--Extent and
Variety of its Productions--Shawls of Cashmere.--Extent of the
Manufacture.--Silks.--Cottons.--Minerals.--Vegetables.--
Advantages of opening the Indus to the Punjab Trade.--Effects
of it on the Towns of the Indus.--Articles brought into Demand
by it.--Cotton.--Chintses.--Jewellery, Cutlery, &c.--Depôt for
a Water Commerce.--Political Condition of the Country 395-412

CHAP. II.

ON THE COMMERCE OF CABOOL.

Routes from India on Cabool.--Carriers of the Trade.--
Imports.--Disposition of the Cabool Chiefs towards their
Extension.--Remarks 413-421

CHAP. III.

ON THE COMMERCE AND FOREIGN COMMUNICATIONS OF BOKHARA AND
CENTRAL ASIA.

Progress of Commerce between Europe and Asia.--Success of the
Russians.--British Indian Trade.--Alteration of the Routes of
Commerce.--Negotiations of Russia.--Exports from India and
Russia to Bokhara.--Prices of Merchandize.--Chintses.--White
Goods.--Broad Cloth.--Velvets.--Nankeens. Cochineal.--Indian
Goods.--Muslins.--Shawls.--Indigo.--Sugar.--Trade with China.--
Exports of Bokhara.--Silk.--Cotton.--Wool.--Skins.--Duties on
Trade.--Abuses in the British Custom House.--General
Review.--Russian and British Trade compared.--Opening for
British Exports 422-444

CHAP. IV.

NOTICE ON THE TRADE OF PERSIA.

State of Commerce in Persia.--Routes, and their relative
Advantages.--Description of Goods.--Hints for improving the
Trade.--Singular Instance of commercial Enterprise related 445-454

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Observations on Lieutenant Burnes’s Collection of Bactrian and
other Coins, by Mr. H. H. Wilson, Sanscrit Professor at Oxford;
and Mr. James Prinsep, F.R.S., Secretary of the Asiatic Society
of Bengal 457

NARRATIVE.