﻿108 NARRATIVE OF A ROUTE 



It produces large quantities of wheat, and vegetable 



oil; fuch as the linfeed, and Palmachrijli^ and va- 

 rious kinds of pulfe. Rice is not abundant, it being 

 only cultivated behind large refervoirs of water, col- 

 lected in the rainy feafon, in fituations where the de- 

 clivity of the furface is fuitable; and through the 

 dykes, or embankments df which, the water is occa- 

 fionally let out to fupply the vegetation, when the fall 

 of rain from the atmofphere no longer favors it„ 



Large quantities of grain are exported from Cho- 

 teefgur all over the Nizam s dominions, and eveato 

 the Circars, when the fcarcity in thofc provinces ve-r 

 quires it. From the latter they import fait, which is 

 retailed at fuch an extravagant price, that it is fome- 

 times fold for its weight in filver. ' The villages are 

 very numerous, but poor ; and the country abounds 

 •in cattle, and brood mares of the iaUoo fpecies. The 

 population of Choteefgur is not great, nor does the 

 fyftem of government to which it is fubjeB: at all tend 

 to increafe it. 



The Suhah of Choteefgur^ with its dependencies, 

 was at this time rented by the Berar government, to 

 Ittul Pundit, for a fpecific fum, which was payable 

 it'Tinually in Nagpour ; and who, in conhderation of 

 the rank of Suhadar, and his appointment, hajl like- 

 wife paid a confiderable fum. Upon further inquiry 

 .as to the means by which the Subadar managed the 

 country, I was informed, that he farmed different 

 portions of it to his tenants, for a certain period, and 

 i'or fpecific furas; nearly upon the fame terms as the 

 whole was rented to him. The revenue is colle6led 

 by his tenantry, which, in thofe parts of the country 

 where the government is well eftablilhed, gives them 

 little trouble. The attention of the Subadar is chiefly 

 direBed to levying tributes from the Zemcendars in 

 the, mountainous parts of the country} who being al- 

 ways 



