| Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 656 pages
...1583, spoke of the same place when he said — " Sinnergan is a towne sixe leagues from Serrapore, where there is the best and finest cloth made of cotton that is in all India."* Mr. Hamilton says — " Soonergong is now dwindled down to an inconsiderable village. By Abul Fazel,... | |
| Sir Edward Baines - Cotton growing - 1835 - 590 pages
...1583, spoke of the same place when he said — " Sinnergan is a towne sixe leagues from Serrapore, where there is the best and finest cloth made of cotton that is in all India."* Mr. Hamilton says — " Soonergong is now dwindled down to an inconsiderable village. By Abul Fazel,... | |
| Clinton G. Gilroy - Engraving - 1845 - 560 pages
...in 1583, spoke of the same place when he said — " Sinnergan is a town six leagues from Serrapore, where there is the best and finest cloth made of cotton that is in all India*." Mr. Hamilton says — " Soonergong is now dwindled down to an inconsiderable village. By Abul Fazel,... | |
| Economics - 1846 - 630 pages
...in 1583, spoke of the same place when he said — " Sinnergan is a town six leagues from Serrapore, where there is the best and finest cloth made of cotton that is in all India."* Mr. Hamilton says — " Soonergong is now dwindled down to an inconsiderable village. By Abel Fazul,... | |
| Ezekiel J. Donnell - Cotton - 1872 - 670 pages
...Ralph Fitch, ?n English traveller, in this year visited "Sinnergau, a towne sixe leagues from Senapore, where there is the best and finest cloth made o*f cotton that is in all India.'' (See year 1582.) 1589. The stocking frame, though a complex and ingenious machine, was invented this... | |
| Archæological Survey of India - India - 1882 - 290 pages
...that is made with English thread. In the time of Ralph Fitch, AD 1586, Sunargaon and Sripur produced " the best and finest cloth, made of cotton that is in all India." These were the famous Dhakka muslins, for the purchase of which the East India Company established... | |
| Sir Alexander Cunningham - Bengal (India) - 1882 - 278 pages
...that is made with English thread. In the time of Ralph Fitch, AD 1586, Sunargaon and Sripur produced " the best and finest cloth, made of cotton that is in all India." These were the famous Dhakka muslins, for the purchase of which the East India Company established... | |
| John Horton Ryley - Asia - 1899 - 340 pages
...cannot preuaile against them. Great store of cotton cloth is made here.1 " Sinnergan is a towne sixe leagues from Serrepore, where there is the best and...finest cloth made of cotton that is in all India. The chiefe king of all these countries is called Isacan, and he is chiefe of all the other kings, and is... | |
| Samuel Purchas - Voyages and travels - 1905 - 562 pages
...Horsemen cannot prevaile against them. Great store of Cotton cloth is made here. Sinnergan is a Towne sixe leagues from Serrepore, where there is the best and...finest cloth made of Cotton that is in all India. The chiefe King of all these Countries is called Isacan, and he is chiefe of all the other Kings, and is... | |
| Samuel Purchas - Voyages and travels - 1905 - 558 pages
...Horsemen cannot prevaile against them. Great store of Cotton cloth is made here. Sinnergan is a Towne sixe leagues from Serrepore, where there is the best and...finest cloth made of Cotton that is in all India. The chiefe King of all these Countries is called Isacan, and he is chiefe of all the other Kings, and is... | |
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