244, Mr. Wurrz's Description and Natural History 
estimated. This proportion is judged to be most favourable to 
the proprietors, as actual experiments prove it at least to be as 
25 to 100; but Government is thus moderate, to encourage the 
honesty ‘of the farmers, and to remove all inducement to its 
clandestine exportation. The duties, or customs, are paid only 
on exportation from the province by sea or land: they amount to 
twelve per cent., and the average price is s rated at 1200 rupees 
per candy of 640 pounds avoirdupois: - 
The total produce of Wynaüd may amount, one year with. 
another, to something above fifty candies, perhaps fifty-six 5 
and this grows on an extent of more than 100 miles, reckoning 
the sinuosities and angles of the hills. The kingdom or country 
of the Coorja Rajah produces less by ten or fifteen candies. ‘The 
whole site of the growth of this spice on the continent of Hin- 
dostan extends from the Soubramany Ghaüt, nearly due east 
from Mangalore, to Mannaar Ghaát i in the same > direction from 
Calicut. | ; 
If nature be propitious to the progress of this: valuable pro- 
duction from youth to maturity, she has been no less kind in 
providing for this last stage, in refusing to the generality of the 
inmates of the forest any appetite for the fruit. The natives 
mention only a few of the smaller animals whose depredations are 
felt, viz. two kinds of squirrels, a large and small species, and the 
field rats; but as they did not dwell much on the damage thence 
accruing, it is to be presuined that it cannot amount to much. 
'The evils attendant on the reaping to the Kourch-ara, Pani- 
ara, &c., who perform the labour, are much more serious. The 
sting of the green whip-snake, abounding in those situations, is 
instantly fatal, no antidote having yet been found to ara its 
poison. : cde 
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