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which they store in underground pits. They also use the 

 seeds of gram [Cicer arietinum) in cun-ies and cakes, and the 

 oxalic acid which exudes from every part of the plant seizes 

 instead of vinegar for their curries. The roads roimd Mysore 

 are lined with hedges of American aloe. After the fii-st few 

 miles, we began to pass through groves of cocoanut and 

 betel-palms,^ much rice cultivation, and fields of sugar-cane. 

 Close to Seringapatam a sugar manufactory has been esta- 

 blished by Mr. Grove, who buys up the jaggery from the 

 lyots and refines it. We crossed the Cauvery by a fine 

 bridge, and saw the great canal constructed by Tippoo for 

 irrigating the rice-fields. There are large ruinous houses 

 and temples, embowered in palm-trees, with flights of steps 

 down to the river, outside the old town itself, which is 

 surrounded by a wall and ditch. 



We first di'ove to the tomb under which Hyder Ali and 

 Tippoo are buried. It is in the middle of a garden called 

 the Lal-bagh, with a pretty avenue of cocoanut and betel- 

 palms leading up to it. The tomb is a square building, 

 surmounted by a dome, with minarets at the angles, richly de- 

 corated with arabesque-work in ehunam. It is sm-rouuded by 

 an open corridor, supported by pillars of black hornblende, and 

 in the centre of each side there is a doorway. That facing 

 the avenue is filled in with an open-work screen of the same 

 stone, and the others have double doors richly inlaid with 

 ivory, the gift of Lord Dalhousie. The tombs are placed 

 under the dome, thi-ee in number, namely, of Hyder, Tippoo, 

 and Tippoo's mother, each covered over with a pall of crimson 

 sUk. The building is surrounded by cloisters, a part being 



3 The areca-palm requires a low i holes six feet apart, and the tree comps 

 moist situation, with rather a sandy ' into bearing in about eight years. It 

 soil, either under the hund of a tank, , 3aelds fruit for fifty years, and, when 

 or in a position otherwise favourable j in full bearing, produces 1| lbs. of 

 for irrigation. The seeds are put into I nuts. 



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