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while stringy pulp; the pod turns brown and hard as it ripens, 

 and then separates into two or three divisions, containing the cot- 

 ton. A luxuriant field, exhibiting at the same time the expanding 

 blossom, the bursting capsule, and the snowy flakes of ripe cotton, 

 is one of the most beautiful objects in the agriculture of rJindoslan. 

 Herodotus says, the Indians, in his time, possessed a kind of plant, 

 which instead of fruit, produced wool of a finer and belter quality 

 than that of sheep, of which the natives made their clothes: this 

 plant was no doubt the same as the (gossypium, Lin.) or modern 

 cotton of India. The medium price of this valuable commodity 

 when I was at Baroche and Dhuboy was from seventy to eigl ty 

 rupees the candy, or from eight to nine pounds sterling for seven 

 hundred and forty English pounds weight of cotton. Bally, or 

 rice, from eighty to ten rupees a culsey, a weight equal to six 

 hundred pounds; most of the other grains in Guzcrat were of a 

 similar value. 



Juarree, or cush-eush, (holcus-sorghum, Lin.) is a fine large 

 grain, growing to the height of eight or ten feet: each ear contains 

 many hundred seeds, sometimes two thousand; the slem generally 

 bears more than one head of corn, but the uppermost is always 

 one of ihose royal ears, which, like the largest head of the helio- 

 trope, greatly exceeds the rest in size and beauty. This grain in 

 many respects resembles the maiz and guinea-corn, and forms a 

 chief article of food in ihe Guzcral province. 



Bahjeree (holcus spicatus, Lin.) is another valuable grain, 

 growing in the manner of the juarree; of an inierior size, and only 

 eaten by the poor. Providence has been peculiarly bountiiul U 

 the natives of Guzerat, in a variety of other useful grains. Codra, 



