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Ceylon. PaLASIMUNDU, FORMERLY CALLED

TAPROBANE.

(Exports) Pearls Transparent stones Muslins Tortoise-shell.

India (East Coast, farther north) MasALIa. ( Exports) Muslins, in great quantity. Dosar Ene. ( Exports ) Ivory. India (Ganges delta). GANGES. ( Exports ) Malabathrum Gangetic spikenard Pearls Muslins of the finest sort, called Gangetic.

(The place has a gold coin called caltis).

Malacca. Curyse IsLanD. ( Exports) Tortoise-shell, the best of all.

China.

THINE. (Difficult of access; few men come from there, and seldom) (Exports, overland through Bac-

tria to Barygaza, also by way of the Ganges to Da- mirica )

Raw silk

Silk yarn

Silk cloth.

Himalaya mountains. Tue Besat&. ( Exports ) Malabathrum; in three forms, the large-ball, the medium- ball, and the small-ball.