SINDE. This portion of India is rich in productions. Though its botanical wealth is not great, the rigrietiltural Products are nume rous ; all the grains and pulse common to India are grown. Rice is the staple in the delta and in the country betWeen the 'Western Narra and the Indus, but in the other parts wheat and maize are most extensively cultivated. Barley is grown in some districts. Indigo is largely grown in the north-eastern districts, but it is inferior to that of Bengal. Opium is cultivated near Shikarpoor, and in some other districts. The sugar-cane is pretty generally grown throughout the whole of the province, but its produce is inferior to that of Northbrn Hindustan and the Panjab. Cotton is culti vated everywhere, but the best is grown in the northern districts. Tobacco of good qua lity is grown in the vicinity of Khyrpoor. Hemp, cucumbers, water-melons; and musk. melons, are extensively cultivated. The gar dens produce carrots, turnips, radishes, onions, and several kinds of pumpkins. Among the
fruits are the date, mango, pomegranate, apple, grape, lime, citron, fig, and a variety of other fruits. Ghee and hides constitute important articles of export. Sheep and goats are met with almost everywhere in upper Sinde, and wool is exported from that tract which lies west of the Indus and north of Shikarpoor.
The manufactures of Sinde are not mime rolls; but they may be considered extensive, when the scantiness .of the population is con sidered. .Cotton-cloth of a coarse description is manufactured, in. the .principal, towns and villages, chiefly for home. consumption, and a little. exported to. Afghanistan and Persia. Among the silk, manufactures those of Tatta have acquired a, repute in India, especially a rich fabric of silk, cotton, and gold, variegated in pattern and of close texture.