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Pasturage, to be reserved for the cattle of the 

 Todars, at the exaggerated rate of 200 acres 

 per 100 head (less than 40 per 100 being 

 allowed by the revenue authorities in the 

 calculation for assessment), for an average 

 of 2,000 head of buffaloes wiH be „ 4,000 



Pasturage, to be reserved for the cattle of the 

 Burghers, consisting of buffaloes and bul- 

 locks, averaging 8,000 head at 100 acres 

 per 100 head „ 8,000 



Land occupied by the Station of Ootacamund, 



pubhc buildings, roads, &c, „ 6,000 



Village sites, sacred groves, &c. „ 2,060 



Tracts of rocky ground, morasses, and other 

 land not immediately fit for cultivation (al- 

 though these might well be considered as 

 compensated by the gain of surface intro- 

 duced tlu-ough the undulations of the land.) „ 17,000 



Deduct... 68,494 



and there is a remainder of... 200,000 



acres entirely unoccupied and waste, being either covered with forest, 

 or lying under grass not required for pasturage. 



It has been already stated, that the natives obtain from their wheat 

 lands a quantity of grain equivalent to 11^ bushels per acre, but, as 

 the depth to which they plough their fields never exceeds 7 inches, and 

 for the most part is barely 6, and as they give them only the most meagre 

 allowance of sun-dried and exhausted manure, never exceeding (as far 

 as I have been able to ascertain by counting the baskets brought and 

 measuring spaces of land dressed with it) half a ton per acre, and this 

 not ploughed well into the ground, but merely scraped into the surface 

 furrows, and as they never supply the land with what, from the com- 

 position of the soil, it so much needs, viz. Hme, it may be safely assimi- 

 ed that under a proper system of tillage this amount of produce could 

 be at least trebled, or, at a very low estimate, 4 quarters of wheat 

 could be obtained from one acre. 



I may therefore safely affirm that this district is capable of furnish- 

 ing, for export to Europe, from 4 to 500,000 quarters of wheat of a 



