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x INTRODUCTION.
Cotton, Pepper, Sandal-wood, and Cardamoms.
" Of the cultivation and preparation of these valuable articles
you should endeavour to gain the fullest and most accurate
accounts, as well as of the nature and extent of the trade carried
on in them; the usages which may have obtained concerning
them ; the causes, if any there may be, which may seem to ob-
struct improvement in quality, or extension in produce, of either
of them; and the means to your judgment most likely to remove
these causes."
Mines, Quarries, Minerals, and Mineral Springs.
'** The mines and quarries, as objects of particular concern, you
should make a subject of more minute investigation, in so far as
relates to their produce; the mode of working them; the state
of the people employed in them, as well in respect to the con-
dition of their service as to their treatment, or the price of their
labour. In regard to the Minerals and Mineral Springs, they
should be examined with attention, and such of them analyzed
as may be esteemed medicinal by the people themselves, or you
may judge to be so."
Manufactures and Manufacturers.
" The state of the manufactures is a farther object of conse-
quence, especially of those which are exported; you should
therefore procure as exact an account of the different kinds, as
may be practicable, and of the ability of the country itself to
furnish the materials used in them; and you should ascertain
what proportion, if any, is necessary to be imported from other
countries; from what countries, and under what advantages or
Cotton, Pepper, Sandal-wood, and Cardamoms.
" Of the cultivation and preparation of these valuable articles
you should endeavour to gain the fullest and most accurate
accounts, as well as of the nature and extent of the trade carried
on in them; the usages which may have obtained concerning
them ; the causes, if any there may be, which may seem to ob-
struct improvement in quality, or extension in produce, of either
of them; and the means to your judgment most likely to remove
these causes."
Mines, Quarries, Minerals, and Mineral Springs.
'** The mines and quarries, as objects of particular concern, you
should make a subject of more minute investigation, in so far as
relates to their produce; the mode of working them; the state
of the people employed in them, as well in respect to the con-
dition of their service as to their treatment, or the price of their
labour. In regard to the Minerals and Mineral Springs, they
should be examined with attention, and such of them analyzed
as may be esteemed medicinal by the people themselves, or you
may judge to be so."
Manufactures and Manufacturers.
" The state of the manufactures is a farther object of conse-
quence, especially of those which are exported; you should
therefore procure as exact an account of the different kinds, as
may be practicable, and of the ability of the country itself to
furnish the materials used in them; and you should ascertain
what proportion, if any, is necessary to be imported from other
countries; from what countries, and under what advantages or