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pressure of war on that ibland, and on the last returns of 

 the accountant-ceneral here amount to 216,000. 



From ihe difficulties and inconveniences occasioned by 

 war, however, neither the. coast nor Bengal have been ex- 

 empt, and therefore this cannot be held as a sufficient rea- 

 son of disproportion. . The zeal of professional men every 

 •where, with very few exceptions, having been nearly the 

 same, the real cause therefore remains a desideratom ; but 

 the display of so many operations having lately excited 2 

 variety of plans of alterations amongst several gentlemen 

 of this establishment, renders it in some degree proper to 

 pay attention to the idea of ;i permanent and fixed ii>stitu- 

 tfon, so that every vilJagt- may have vaccine inoculators 

 within itself, in the same or a similar manner to snch use- 

 ful avocations as you will see detailed by me, in a letter to 

 captain James Achilles Kirkpatrick, page Sf) of the accom- 

 panying volume, which you may therefore reprint in the 

 Gazette to-morrow, along with this letter. 

 1 an), Sir, \ 



Your very obedient servant, 



Ftrrt St. George. J. AnDERSOK. 



Dec. 19,1804. 



To Captain Jaines- Achilles Kirkpatrick. 



DEAR SIR, 



The compass of a letter hardly admitting rocini for an- 

 swers to Mr. IVIorton Pitt's queries, I must again trouble 

 you to render the answer which I have given to his question 

 of "what proportion the rent bear? to the vear's crop" more 

 intelligible, by stating the practice at the village of Nuji- 

 gambacum, where I am situated, which may serve to give 

 an idea of the distribution of grain, the greatest necessary 

 of life, frorn the very spot where it grows j a practice that 

 seems favourable to th.e preservation of good-will between 

 the difierci\t ranks of society. 



In this Village twelve families of labourers have twentv- 

 fiv-e ploughs, with v.hich they cultivate 160 cawuies* of 

 ground, paying rent to government, and 40 cawnies of free 

 land : and as the question only relates to the first, it will 

 be sufficient to say that the caw nie generally produces sixty 

 marcals f of paddy, of \\hicli, when cut and gathered into a 

 heap, the cultivator must give one marcal to the carpenter 

 ancj iron-sniitli, and another to the washerman and barber. 



* One cawnic h .57,000 square feet, 

 ■f One niarval ir eight measurci. 



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