CHAPTER XXV. 



STATEMENT OF THE CULTIVATION, PRODUCE, AND REVENUE, 



IN THE PURGUNNA OF DIIUBOY AND 



SUBORDINATE DISTRICTS; 



WITH SKETCHES OF THE ZEMINDARS, REVENUE-OFFICERS, 



AND ABUSES IN THE REVENUE DEPARTMENT. 



1781. 



Such themes as these, the rural Maro sung 

 To wide imperial Rome, in the full height 

 Of elegance and taste, by Greece retin'd. 



In ancient times, the sacred plough employ'd 

 The kings and awful fathers of mankind: 

 They held the scale of empire, rul'd the storm 

 Of mighty war ; then, with victorious hand. 

 Disdaining little delicacies, seiz'd 

 The plough ; and, greatly independent, liv'd ! Thomson. 



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