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dors. The canes having- undergone one expression, and being 

 consequently in a split state, are not thrust a second time 

 through till all the irons are greased. The cylinders are not 

 always of the same dimensions ; those I examined were two 

 cubits high, and one and two-thirds in diameter, these are the 

 common size ; I am however told they are sometimes much 

 larger." 



To point out the benefit that may accrue to the cultivators 

 of this sugar cane, I need only add the following copy of a 

 letter from Mr. Richard Garden, superintendent of the Ho- 

 nourable Company's rum and sugar works at Mirzapore 

 Culna in Bengal, to me, dated 13th August, 1801, soon after 

 the introduction of the cane. 



" With respect to the produce of the common Bengal sugar 

 canes, 1 have never been able to collect an account that can 

 be depended upon ; the natives generally manufacture the 

 juice into Jaggery in my neighbourhood, which yields them 

 nearly 14 cutcha maunds, of 60 sicca weight, per bigha on 

 an average; and a profit of about 11 or 12 rupees perb?gha. 

 Neither the white ants nor jackals have committed any de- 

 predations on the China canes that I have planted, although 

 the latter have often been seen among them, which certainly 

 gives these canes a decided preference to the Bengal sugar 

 canes. I do not think the China ones degenerate in the least, 

 nor do they improve • they appear to me to remain nearly in 

 the same state. If planted at the same time the natives put 

 their canes into the ground, they will not make such good 

 returns as the Bengal sort, but planted in the West India 

 mode, in the month of September or October, and suffered 

 to remain on the ground till the December or January twelve 

 months, they will then yield double the returns of what the 

 Bengal canes do, which is owing in part to the length of time 

 they are in the ground, and principally to the ants and jack- 

 als not destroying them, whereas if the Bengal cane was 

 to remain so long on the ground, the natives would have 

 great difficulty to prevent the greatest part of them from be- 



