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5. Pease; here called Buitlee : ripe in the cold 

 feafon. 



Rice is cultivated only on a few detached fpots, 

 xvhich lie conveniently for water, but the quantity is 

 fo fmall that it can hardly be reckoned among the 

 crops. In a lift I received of the cultivated grains, I 

 find the name of Cablee Channali, but not having feen 

 it, can give no account of it. 



Barley is not cultivated ; the foil is unfavourable 

 to this grain, and befides, the farmers fay, it would 

 require artificial watering. 



The principal articles of export trade arc cotton, 

 which is lent in large quantities to Guzerat ; courfe 

 ftained and printed cloaths ; Aaly or the root of the 

 Morinda Citrifolia, and opium. As the manner of pre- 

 paring this drug differs, in fome refpcdls, from that 

 which is praftifed in other parts of hidia, I lliall give 

 an account of it, which I received from fome experienc- 

 ed cidtivators The poppy is fovvn in December. The 

 ground is well manured with cow-dung and afhes. It 

 is ploughed feven times, then divided into little fquares, 

 of two or two and a half cubit?. In thefe the feeds 

 are fown, in the proportion of one feer and a half, 

 or two feers*, to a iDegah-j-. After eight or nine days, 

 the ground is watered ; that is, it is compleady over- 

 riowed to the depth of a few fingers' breadth, and this 

 operation is repeated, at the diftance of ten or twelve 

 days, for feven times. After each time of watering, 

 wJien the ground is a little dried, but fiill foft, it is fiir- 

 red, xvith an iron inftrument, fo as to loofen it efFedlu- 

 ally, and the weeds are carefully removed. Alfo, if 

 the plants come up very clofe, they are thinned, fo that 

 the remainder may be at the diltance of four or five 

 fingers' breadth from one another. The plants thus 

 pulled out, when very young, are ufed asapot-herb; but 



* The feer is eighty ruptes weight, f One hundi'cd cubits Iquare. 



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