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inclined terraces of all sizes and descriptions, and supported 

 by stone walls. On the banks of the Sutliij and other rivers 

 where the principal produce is rice, the fields are invariably 

 partitioned out into flats, to allow the water necessary for irri- 

 gation to cover the whole surface equally. 



The seasons at Kotgurh are greatly more backward than 

 in the plains of Hindoostan, nearly corresponding with those 

 in the central parts of Europe. In other words, the harvest 

 is fully a month or six weeks later than at Soobathoo, where 

 again it is a month behind that of the plains. 



We begin to sow European vegetables in February and 

 March, and plant potatoes in March, April, and May. The 

 reaping season on the banks of the Sutliij, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Kotgurh, where the heat is extremely great and op- 

 pressive, is, if any thing, earlier than about Soobathoo, and 

 in situations of similar elevation above the sea. The crops of 

 wheat and barley are more luxuriant and productive about 

 Kotgurh than they are in the lower hills ; and coua jow, which 

 is little inferior to the wheat in quality and productiveness, 

 thrive at a less elevation, — at least the natives never cultivate it. 



The wheat, barley, and cowa jow crops, are succeeded by 

 phuphura, cogul, chuberee, and the several kinds of bathoo, 

 which are all cut down and taken in before the winter com- 

 mences. 



Art. VIII. — Observations on Ventriloquism* By Dugald 

 Stewart, Esq. 



Numberless facts might be adduced, to show how very much 

 the effects of all the imitative arts are aided by the imagina- 

 tion of the spectator or of the hearer. But I shall confine 

 myself at present to an example which, as far as I know, has 

 not hitherto attracted the notice of philosophers ; — I mean the 

 art of the Ventriloquist, — an art, which, if I am not mistaken, 

 will be found, on examination, to bear a closer analogy to the 

 nobler art of the painter, than we should, at first sight, be dis- 

 posed to apprehend. 



* From his Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Vol. iii. 

 p. 229. Appendix. 



