3792, memoirs of Dr James Anderson. 1 
sea side, in a duty amounting to more than double the 
prime cost. 
It is easy to see that the company, as well as the coun- 
try, would be benefitted by considering what this duty, 
one year with another, amounts to, that by remitting sa 
muchin the revenue the wood might pafs free, and prevent 
the lofs of importing it from abroad. 
A mode: ofthis kind might be adopted for indigo, and. 
other articles of foreign export, which are at present use- 
lef{s productions of the country, not only by such impedi- 
ments as I have just mentioned, to the extensive navigation 
of the Gadavery, but likewise the custom-houses on all the 
market roads in every part of the country. 
_ If it then appears that the company’s pofsefsions do not 
yield enough to supply the market, the Lombardies will 
bring indigo as well as oil seeds from the Mahratta coun- 
tries in exchange for salt. 
In the various expeditions of the Soubah, the Lombar- 
dies are entertained as the carriers of stores; but on the 
coast they are taxed by every petty zemindar through 
whose districts they pafs, in a duty of eleven rupees per 
hundred, for the cattle in their encampment, notwithstand- 
ing your salt farms would be uselefs without them. 
4 _ Lam, Ge. 
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From the same to the same. 
Hon. SIR, AND SIRS, ',. Dee.'30: 1789. 
_ Tue vegetation at sea of the plants from Kew garden, 
being so small, amounting only to five inches in height, 
and three quarters of an inch in circumference e, the at— 
‘rival of insects from America must be precarious. 
It is, therefore, my opinion, they fhould be first intre- 
duced at St Helena; and for that purpose a dozen nopal 
plants are in readinefs, for the care and cultuye of which it 
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