iff On the ^fectns of gahibtg Power in Mechanics. 



On confronting some of the richer Shaynagaru with the 

 Kaoaritt they acknowledged that this statement was true. 



The places from whetice agent?; are at present employed 

 to purchase cloths are, Na^ara, Chairakal, Seringapatam, 

 Chin*-raya-pattana, Sira, Wadhngiri, and Devund-hully. 

 A small quantity of cotton and silk cloth for women*9 

 jackets goes to the lower Carnatic. This h the account of 

 the Nagarit; but I have good reason to think, that a very 

 kir2:e quantity of goods, especially »f the silk manufacture 

 called combaivuftics, are sent to ihat country, and are much 

 in request an)ong the women of the rich Br^hmans. The 

 Na^arit say, that the merchants, who import cotton, take 

 away silk clotlis for ihfe dresdof theBrahmans of both sexes, 

 and also blue and red cotton stuiTs ; but not in a quantity 

 sufficient to repay the whole cotton. Daring the former 

 government of the Raja's family, much cloth went from this 

 neighbourhood to Tanjore, Ncgapatam, and other parts of 

 the southern Carnatic : but since to that period, this com- 

 merce has been entirely at a stop. 



The Mangalore merchants send hither for every kind of 

 cloth. The dress of that country requires cloth only eight 

 cubits long. The pieces intended for that market have 

 therefore a blank left in their middle. In Hyder's time 

 tliere was a great exportation of cloth to Calicut : but the 

 troubles in Malabar have put an entire stop to this branch of 

 conuiierce. 



[To be continued.] 



LIII. On the Means of gaining Power in Mechanics, 

 To Mr, Tilloch, 



SIR, 

 In reply to the observations and opinion of one of your 

 correspondents in Number cxvii. of your Magazine, relative 

 to the means of gaining mechanical power, i regret having 

 to remark, that instead of the instruction, or satisfactory 

 infornjaiion, to be expected from an academician, he has 

 only gtven us antiquated and superfluous objections and 



conclusions^ 



