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 | | But since it has been realized how much can be yielded by the province of *Bengal*, which formerly bore the title of kingdom, as I shall elsewhere indicate, its government has become the most important in the Empire of the Great Mogul. |
 | | There is a considerable trade in this town, and both at Burhanpur itself and in all the province an enormous quantity of very transparent *muslins* are made, which are exported to Persia, Turkey, Muscovie, Poland, Arabia, Grand Cairo, and other places. |
 | | They make, also, other kinds of fabrics at Burhanpur, and there is hardly another province in the whole of India which has a greater abundance of *cotton*.... |
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