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to enter into new agreements for the sale of Sheathing
[in margin] Mr. Cotters
[How low?] is the most for Swedish & Hungarian Copper
[in margin] Price of Cornish Copper
Less than 100£ a Ton Cornish Standard would repay with advantage the most expensive work in Cornwall
[in margin] Persian Copper Armenian account
great export of Copper ought to be made to India for some years to Come in order to Check the importation of Copper from Persia which will otherwise get posession of the market there
The Persian Copper lately brought to India from the neighbourhood of [Ocerbehen?] is softer & Easier workd than English Copper & superior in Fineness to all Boltons Copper except that markd M.B. which is held to be Equal
The ores are hot prepared Copper is bought from the merchants who work the mines at their own expence for 2 to 3 piestres 4-6 Shillings for lb 18 by the Pasher
They are refind at Focet where merchants from Constantinople & other places resort to buy
it is Embarkd at [Ocerbehen?] having been Carried 17 days Journey by Land & pays there a duty of 5 per 0/0 in 20 days it is Floated on Rafts on the Tigris to Mosul Where it pays 1 per 0/0 & is transhipd on larger rafts & in 5 days arrives at Bada where it pays 6 per 0/0 then to Buparah in 15 days & pays a duty of 8 per 0/0 on importation & 5 per 0/0 on Exportation 57 days 25 per 0/0 duties
Carriage Smelting & refining Cost 40 per 0/0
these with duties 65 per 0/0 on the original Cost
The Produce has of late been 200,000 Bombay mounds = 50,000 Cwt. 2500 Tons ¾ of which is Consumd in the adjacent Countries ¼ goes to Buperah
The mines are Capable of Great increase in their product
See another account on the next page Letter A