../^2. improvements in India. a* 



" At Madras, where every thing is double the expence 

 at which the same thing can be procured on other pans 

 of the coast, the Company take a pagoda and a half for 

 every acre of waste land yearly, and the labourer has a 

 pagoda and a quarter a-month ; which together, reckoning 

 the exchange eight fliillings, amounts to twelve guineas 

 for the first cost of a hundred pounds, or two hundred and 

 forty guineas a ton, ' 



" Regarding the freight, it is the gentlemen on your 

 side of the water who are the arbiters. I believe that 

 the Company's fliips are taken up at twenty guineas a ton, 

 so that the grofs expence of landing a ton of this lac in 

 England, might be defrayed for two hundred and fifty 

 guineas, as half freight is all that could reasonably be 

 cdmanded for the homeward pafsage. 



" By bringing branches of the mimosa intsea, covered 

 with the red lac insects, from the woods, at the time the, 

 young are ifsuing from the parent, and fastening them on 

 hedge -rows of the mimosa madraspatensis of plukenet, and 

 trees of the rhamnus jujuba, I am establifliing an easier 

 mode of collecting this article than has hitherto been practi- 

 sed, when the labour of a whole day's search could only 

 procure a few ounces," <b'c. 



Fort St George June 6. 179I> 



Of the other objects of Dr Anderson's pursuit an ac- 

 count will be given in a future number. 



ANECDOTE. 



rooTE, on seeing a nobleman who had very thin arms 

 and legs, with a pot belly, said, in his usual sarcastic spi- 

 •rit, that he looked like a greyhound that had got ^ic 

 iliopsy. 



