86 THE FOTIEST LANDS OF FINLAND. 



Governor in Council wishes for Dr Cleghorn's opinion 

 whether it would not be better that land required for 

 cultivation should bt; permanently cleared and cultivated. 



' Lastly, the Government will be glad of Dr Cleghorn's 

 opinion whether Koomaree cultivation has diminished the 

 prevalence of fever, as stated in the 42d par. It appears 

 to Government that it embraces opposing influences in 

 that regard some adverse to the production of malaria, 

 others favourable to it ; while permanent clearings appear 

 of more unmixed advantage. 



' 5. In Mysore, it is stated, Koomaree has been wholly 

 prohibited ; and it has been very nearly also in the forests 

 of the Bombay territory. It is matter for consideration 

 in the opinion of Government whether it may not properly 

 be so in Canara also. 



' 6. Dr Cleghorn will also be requested to inform 

 Government whether the kind of cultivation in Malabar 

 called Punam resembles Koomaree in respect to the tem- 

 porary and successive clearing and abandonment of land, 

 or whether the land is there cultivated more permanently. 

 If the latter is the case, it would seem to afford an addi- 

 tional argument for putting a stop to Koomaree. 



J. D. BOURDILLON, 



Secretary to Government. 



' From Conservator of Forests to Secretary to Government. 



1 17th August 1859, No. 755. 



' 1. I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of the 

 Pros, of Government, 1st June 1859, No. 737, enclosing 

 Ex. Pros. Board of Rev., No. 1350, 16th April 1859, and 

 calling for an opinion as to the sufficiency of the means 

 proposed by the Board for checking the practice of 

 Koomaree, cultivation. I would have replied sooner, but 

 have just received an interesting letter from Capt. W. C. 

 Anderson, Supt. Rev. Survey, S. Mahratta country, an 

 Ext. from which, along with Mr Grant's description of the 

 Punam cultivation in Malabar, are forwarded as enclosures 

 to this communication, 



