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season of cultivation, I have the pleasure to add, that the Com- 

 pany's share of the revenue from the crops for the present 

 year, as settled at the late jumma-bundec, amounts to a lac and 

 twenty five thousand rupees; which I am assured is equal to any 

 collected for several years in the Dhuboy purgunna, and greatly 

 exceeding the usual revenue. Last year, from unfavourable rains 

 and subsequent troubles, the assessment did not amount to sixty 

 thousand rupees. The rains this season were remarkably favour- 

 able, and the crops generally answered every expectation. I have 

 also the satisfaction to add, that of the lac and twenty live thou- 

 sand rupees settled for the Dhuboy purgunna, not two hundred 

 remain to be recovered. 



"The produce of the Dhuboy district consists of batty, bajeree, 

 juaree, and smaller grain; with some cotton, mowrah, seeds for 

 oil in great variety, and shrubs for dying. Batty may be termed 

 the staple grain of this purgunna; the others bear only a small 

 proportion, and wheat is seldom sown. 



" The city of Dhuboy is two miles, two furlongs, and twenty 

 poles in extent; the fortifications form nearly an exact square, 

 and, like most of the Indian works, consist of a single wall, flanked 

 with small toners, within musket shot of each other, and a ditch 

 which in most places is very shallow. To the south the wall is 

 well built of stone, and in excellent repair; has now a new thin 

 brick parapet, and a terreplein broad enough for the free passage 

 of troops. To the west there is a good stone-wall, and brick para- 

 pet, in the same manner; but the terreplein, which has been the 

 terrace over a kind of casemate, or colonnade of hewn stone, which 

 extends along all that face, is now impassable; the stone beams 



