HEMP (Indian), or Sunn. This consists of the fibre of the crotolaria juncea, a totally different plant from the cannabis sativa, which, as already stated, is never used by the Hindus for cloth or cordage. Sunn is grown in various places of Hindustan. The strongest, whitest, and most durable species is produced at Comercolly. During those periods of the late war when the intercourse with the Baltic was interrupted, and hemp bore an enormous price, large quantities of sunn were imported; but the fibre being comparatively weak, the article was not found to answer, and the importation has since been discontinued. (Milburn's Orient. Commerce.)
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