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Remarks on No. 1. There are numerous varieties 

 of the Ouse and Aumon rice, the former is sometimes 

 sown alone, but the latter very seldom ; when sown 

 together, as is most frequently the case, the propor- 

 tion of seed is three parts Ouse to one part Aumon. 

 The produce is, however, different to what might 

 be expected, the former yielding only four or five 

 maunds, and the latter six or seven ditto. The Ouse 

 continues on the field four to five months ; the 

 Aumon eight or nine ; and very soon covers the 

 space, by vigorous tillings, which was previously 

 occupied by the Ouse.* 



Remarks on No. 4. This crop is often sown 

 with Aumon. I have been told by natives, that the 

 white Teel, (Sesamum,) is occasionally grown in this 

 district. I have never yet met with it, and imagined 

 it was only produced in the Upper Provinces, 

 where it is used as an article of food ; chickny and 

 cakes made of this seed, well flavoured with assafoe- 

 tida, is considered by the natives quite a bonne 

 bouclie. 



* Of all the kinds of rice, the Aumon is the most rapid in its growth. 

 Dr. Taylor (Topography of Dacca) mentions, that it frequently shoots 

 up to the extent of twelve inches in twenty-four hours, and attains, in 

 the course of some seasons, a height of fourteen feet. H. H. S. 



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