Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . tion. Next after cotton may be ranked thejute of India. It is virtually a hemp,though the fiber is somewhat region of its production is confined 704 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. to Bengal, on the north and east. The ehief seat of the product is in the valley of the Brahmaputra, where The jute indus-try; extent of the jute nourishes in thethe product. i_ • i_ j. j Ti highest degree. It isbelieved that no oth
Ridpath's history of the world; being an account of the ethnic origin, primitive estate, early migrations, social conditions and present promise of the principal families of men .. . tion. Next after cotton may be ranked thejute of India. It is virtually a hemp,though the fiber is somewhat region of its production is confined 704 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. to Bengal, on the north and east. The ehief seat of the product is in the valley of the Brahmaputra, where The jute indus-try; extent of the jute nourishes in thethe product. i_ • i_ j. j Ti highest degree. It isbelieved that no other product whichhas reached to the rank of an importantexport has done so much in a reactionary-way for the comfort of the producers asjute. It is one of those peculiar prod- Of the purely European productswhich have been introduced into In-dia, indigo is entitled to the . Large place of first rank ; but the interest indigo in Indian -, -i i -i • i ., commerce. m it has declined in thelast quarter of a century. In NorthBehar the industry is as important asever, and from this single district abouthalf the product of the entire country isderived. The exports of the dye from. OPIUM MANUFACTORY.—Drawn by A. Sirouy, from a photograph by Madame Dieulafoy. ucts which does not perish when placedin depot from season to season, and thesupply, therefore, may be regulated bythe producer according to the demandsof the market. In 1872 a million acreswere planted in jute, and it is estimatedthat the area of country in which it maybe profitably produced extends to overtwenty million of acres. The exportfrom Calcutta has amounted in a singleyear to more than four million poundssterling. all India amounted in the years 1878-79to nearly three million pounds sterling. But the most profitable of the EastIndian industries, so far as exportationis concerned, is that of opium. Thevalley of the Ganges and the table-land ofCentral India are as much Extent, impor-a native place of the opium- ^^^Tpr
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