26 ON THE PLANT MORINDA, 



count, that a good crop is six, and a bad one four, 

 viaunks ; that each mauny yields, when dried, 3! 

 nnins, and that in this dried root, the coarse at one 

 rupee, the medium at two, and the fine at four, are 

 in equal quantities; then, the value of the good 

 crop will be forty-nine rupees, and that of the bad 

 one 32, 10, 8. The first of these leaves Rupees 

 22, 6, the other Rs. 6, o, 8, from each beegah* 

 The medium, Rupees 14, 3, 4, we may estimate as 

 the profit of the husbandman, out of which he is to 

 maintain himself and his cattle for three years. In 

 this account I have not included the expence of 

 seed, as the cultivator is generally supplied with it 

 from his own trees. Had he been obliged to pur- 

 chase it, we must have added eight rupees to the 

 expence of cultivation : but, as the crop sustains no 

 damage by remaining in the ground, the cultivator 

 can dig it up at his leisure ; and therefore he gene- 

 rally saves by his own labour great part of the expence 

 above stated for digging;. 



In another village *, the cultivator has the land 

 on much easier terms ; only paying three rupees for 

 the crop, or one rupee yearly, to the collector. 

 Therefore, the other expences being supposed the 

 same, the crop only costs him Rs. 19, 10, besides 

 his own maintenance and that of his cattle. 



Besides the consumption of the root in the manu- 

 factures of this province, large quantities of it are ex- 

 ported to Guzeral and the northern part of Hindustan. 

 I have not been able to learn the exact value of this 



* Rindiuaxi) about the fame distance from Oujcin as the former. 



expor- 



