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beds like a garden, on which the feeds are fown, and care- 

 fully watered every third morning at fun-rife for the firft 

 month. 



The value of the root here prevent? its being fent to Eu- 

 rope, as well as that the power of the fun's rays are necef- 

 fary to obtain the iuU eiVecl of the dye j fo that a dyer mud 

 fometimes repeat his procefs 200 times before he hits the 

 right colour. 



The root, which is very flender and long, when dried, is 

 cut up in bundles about a fpau in girt, and brought thus to 

 market, where it fells according to its quality, at the rate of 

 from ten pagodas, or four pounds Sterling, to fcventy pago- 

 das or twenty-eight pounds Sterling the maund, or quarter, 

 of ft hundred weight. 



*TranJlation from th« "talinga, for the cultivation of the 

 Che or Chay *, 



'i'he way of gathering feeds of Chay root, when the plants 

 are well grown and red-coloured, and after they have tlovv- 

 ered and produced fruit and long roots, then it is time to 

 get the feed j as the feeds are very fmall, and drop down un- 

 der the plants, it can only be gathered with the fand, which 

 mull be kept as in a heap till next year, as it cannot be uf- 

 ed that year — The ground ihould be fandy, and where 

 there is fweei^ water, well manured ^vith (heep's dung; or 

 Iheep (hould be kept on the ground for that purpole, and theu 

 ploughed, the more frequently the better, feven or eight 

 times. It mull be perfe(Jlly level, without grafs, and divid- 

 ed into beds of one yard breadth, and four yards long, with 

 a narrow water courfe. The fesds m-ufl be fown thinlv 

 therein, and Palmira leaves placed over the furface, and the 

 water poured on them to prevent the ieed being waftied cut 

 of the ground until they Ihoot up, which will be in 5 or 6 

 days. For two months after this, the ground muil be kept 

 conllautly wet and fprinkied beiides with water, having cow 

 dung mixed with it every morning, to prevent the ihoots 

 being blown oft' by the wind \ during the remaining month*;, 

 the cow dung may be omitted, and the ground only water- 

 * This was read in the Royal Society of iidinhnrgh, November 3 ; 

 and the original from whence the tranflation wa.= maje, IftJ^ci wirii 

 lilt J'ccritury of the fociity. 



