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chine The quantity of water raised at each elevation 

 of these different instruments, may be from about 

 one maund to a maund and a half. 



9th. Rice is the chief production. Sugar-cane, 

 Cotton, Wheat, Teel, (Sesamum,) Kalai, a species of 

 Dolichos, Indigo, &c. are also cultivated in smaller 

 quantities. 



10th. In some very good lands, Wheat, &c. is 

 sown after the Rice crop has been reaped. But in 

 general only one crop is raised during the year from 

 the same lands. Rice is sown on the same grounds 

 from year to year, but Sugar-cane, Cotton, and Teel, 

 &c. are changed. 



llth. Indigo, Cotton, Sugar-cane, &c. are all 

 cultivated in this district. A small farmer culti- 

 vating twelve biggahs of ground, would probably 

 allot only one biggah to each of the above articles. 



12th. For Indigo, poloo and bastoo soils are 

 preferred. For Cotton, nietiel ; and for Sugar-cane, 

 bastoo, belia, &c. 



13th. No kinds of foreign Cotton have as yet 

 been tried, nor has the Otaheite cane been introduced. 



14th. Except for Teel (Sesamum) and (a species 

 of Dolichos) Kalai, which are sown on high lands, 

 fallowing is not practised here. 



