in the Bunnha Dominion^. <i^i 



•the coll of finking a new well is iiooo tccals flowered (ilvcr 

 of the country, or 3500 ficca rupees ; and the annual average 

 net profit 1000 tecals, or 1250 ficca rupees. 



'Jlie contrail price with the miners for finking a well is as 

 follows : — For the flrll forty cubits they have forty tecals, fof 

 the next forty cubits three hundred tecals, and beyond thefe 

 eighty cubits to the oil they have from thirty to fifty tecals 

 per cubit, according to the depth (the Burmha cubit is nine- 

 teen Inches Engli(h) : taking the mean rate of forty tecali* 

 per cubit, and one hundred cubits as the general depth at 

 which they come to oil, the remaining twenty cubits will 

 cod 800 tecals, or the whole of the miner's wages for finking 

 the fiiaft iJ^o tecals; a well of 100 cubits will require 9.;^o 

 caffia itave^-, wliich at five tecals per hundred will coil 471 

 tecals. Portage and workmanthip in fitting them mav amount 

 to 100 tecals more ; the leveUing the hill for the crown of the 

 well, and making the draw road, &c. according to the com- 

 mon rate of labour in the country, will cofi: about 200 tecals ; 

 ropes, Sec. and provifions for the workmen, which are fup- 

 plied by the proprietor when making a new well; e^:perffes 

 of propitiatory facrifices, and perhaps a figniorage fine to q;o- 

 vernment for permififion to fink a new well, confume the 

 remaining 512J; tecals. In deepening an old well they make 

 the belt bargain in their power with the miners, who rate 

 their demand per cubit according to its depth and danger 

 from the heats or mephitic air. 



The amount, produce, and wages of the labourers who 

 draw the oil, as ftated to me, J fufpe6l was exaggerated or 

 erroneous from mifinterpretation on both fides. 



The average produce of each well per diem, thev*faid, was 

 500 vifs, or 1825 lbs. avoirdupois, and that the labourers 

 earned upwards of eight tecals each per month : but I appre- 

 hend this wa^ not meant as the average produce, or wages 

 for every day or month throughout the year, as mud appear 

 from a further examination of the fubjeft ; where faets are 

 dubious we muft endeavour to obtain truth from internal 

 evidence. Each well is worked by four men, and their 

 wages is regulated by the average produce of fix davs labour, 

 of. which they have one-fixth, or its value, at the ratQ of uny 



