'The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society. From January 1865 to December 1867. (Edited by the Honorary Secretary.) Volume XVIII.' [‎14] (149/268)

OVERLAND JOURNEY PROM
junior, of Staleybvidge, having found its way into a recent number of
the Cotton Supply Reporter, I will confine myself at present to a mere
mention of the fact that the mind of the Turkish producer is not in a
state to admit of his making outlay of his own accord either in the in
troduction of a new seed or extending the indigenous produce with
marked success. He is apprehensive
that the price now given for the okaf
of 2G piastres would immediately fall
to the old figure of 6 piastres if the
American War breach were healed.
Very good cotton is produced near the Kizzil Irmak, but of short staple.
On a specimen sent by me to Manchester it was reported questionable
whether, when the long-stapled cottons should have sunk to their old-
fashioned level of price, such short cottons as these would not be beaten
out of the market altogether.
t 2| lb. ; and piastres beinp:
about equal to the shilling, the
prospective fall would be from about
Is. to 4|c£. a lb.
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15. An hour’s halt at the dwelling-house of the managers of the
Salt-works between Ulach and Sivas enabled me to make inquiry on a
not unimportant item of the revenues in Asia Minor. This place bears
the name of Tuzlu Prinwar, the fountain or spring of salt, but its actual
realization in coin is set down at no higher sum than 40,000 piastres
(about £364) per annum. They explained, however, that it was the
total revenue of the Asia Minor salt-springs which was considerable,
and that this once formed but a part of the whole system. My in
formants were managers on the part of Government, receiving a fixed
salary to make the most of their charge, but under no contract for a
stipulated sum.
16. Asia Minor abounds in hot springs, sometimes hot and cold
combined. Among those described in the vicinity of my route were
the following:—
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1. At the Yelduz Su, about fifteen miles west of Sivas.
2. At Kohineh, near Yuzgat.
<-»• At or near Amasieh, called ( Kaoza Chermik. 5
4. At Kizzilji Kui.
The hist I spent a whole morning in visiting. Having ascended a
rocky eminence about three or four hundred feet above the level of the
surrounding plateau, I came upon a deep fissure in the backbone of a
narrow isolated ridge choked up for the most part with wild flowers anil