185362.] MALABAR COAST: THREE DISTRICTS. 259 



and Mr. Kleinknecht appear to have studied the subject for CHAP. 

 some years past, and to have experimentally satisfied them- ' 

 selves as to the right season for planting, on which so much 

 depends. So far as I am yet informed, Mr. Kleinknecht is 

 sanguine of producing Cottons of superior staples, the high, 

 prices commended by which, and the cheapness as shipping 

 them, will amply repay even the heavy cost of European 

 superintendence, and of felling and weeding plantations cut 

 in heavy jungle, and liable to an overgrowth of rank vege- 

 tation each monsoon. 



" But the fullest particulars regarding this interesting and 

 practical experiment will be afforded to Government by 

 Mr. Kleinknecht himself, in competing for the prize offered 

 in each Presidency for the encouragement of Cotton produce 

 of the superior qualities. I will only add that should he 

 prove successful, he will have opened a large field for specu- 

 lators in the same line, as ground precisely similar to that 

 operated upon by him is available along the banks of all our 

 large rivers below the Ghaut, specially the Kalee Nuddee or 

 Sedashegur river, the Gungawally, the Tuddey, and Honore 

 rivers." 



(2) South Canara: not a Cotton producing Dis- 366 

 trict. South Canara produces but a very inconsiderable Mr . Hodg- 

 amount of Cotton, and that little is sown along with grain, Jfh Dec"m- 

 and is used entirely in domestic manufactures. The 

 quantity produced is indeed so small that none ever finds 



its way to the sea board for shipment ; on the contrary it is 

 imported largely from the port of Coomptah in North 

 Canara. 



(3) Malabar : not a Cotton producing District. 367 

 The Collector reports that Malabar is not a Cotton pro- Mr Orant , g 

 ducing District. The article is however largely imported 



by land from the adjoining province of Coimbatore, chiefly 

 for the purpose of exportation by sea to Bombay, 



