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chena, buntec, and bowtah, all of a nutritious quality, and grate- 

 fVl to the peasants, are planted in June, and the harvest is finished 

 in September: they are generally two or three feet high; when ripe, 

 their golden, purple, and varied tints, give the country a rich ap- 

 apearance ; as do the leguminous classes, of tuar, mutt, gram, 

 and other pulses. Tuar (cytisus cajan, Lin.) when taken from 

 the skin, like the split pea, is called dohll, and forms, with rice, a 

 principal part of the best Indian dishes. Mutt, and gram, (doli- 

 chos-birlorus, Lin.) are the most nutritious food for cattle: the 

 Guzerat cows are very fond of the capaussia, or cotton-seed; it 

 makes them give abundance of rich milk, and costs only four or 

 five rupees the culsey. The large villages breed a number of 

 milch-cows and buffaloes, as ghee, or clarified butter, for foreign 

 consumption is a principal staple in the Guzerat markets. They 

 also rear the best oxen for the service of the vanjarrahs, or mer- 

 chants, so often mentioned, who travel with large caravans of 

 these animals; they are also bred in many parts of Hindostan, for 

 the purpose of transporting salt and other merchandize from the 

 sea-coasts, to the interior towns at a distance. They will carry a 

 load, according to their size and strength, from two to three hundred 

 pounds, and travel ten or twelve miles a day for a great length of 

 time. The food of these animals is straw, grass, capaussia, and 

 oil-cakes, after the oil is expressed from the nuts. 



The variety of shrubs and plants which arc cultivated for oil 

 in that part of India, add much to its general beauty. The natives 

 never burn candles, and in the inland districts, where the cocoa- 

 nut does not thrive, large tracts are set apart for the seeds from 

 which they extract oil: those in the greatest esteem are the Efincreli, 



