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consequences are as pernicious as the same deleterious liquors in 

 Europe. In a plentiful season, a good tree produces from two 

 to three hundred pounds weight of flowers; the proportionate 

 quantity of spirit I cannot ascertain. The flowers are never en- 

 tirely gathered; those that remain on the tree are succeeded by a 

 fruit, or shell containing a pulp of delicate whiteness ; from which 

 is extracted an oily substance like butter, or ghee, which keeps 

 a long time, and for family use answers all the purposes of those 

 valuable articles. The kernel, or seed of the fruit, contains an oil 

 of inferior quality and a more rancid flavour; it does not congeal, 

 and is chiefly used by the poor. 



The palmyra, or brab-tree, flourishes on the banks of the Ner- 

 budda and many Guzerat rivers. The cocoa-nut tree does not 

 grow in the interior districts, nor is it abundant on the sea coasts 

 so far north. The palmyra, like the rest of that beautiful genus, 

 gives an oriental costume to the landscape, and is a tree of long 

 duration ; it sows itself from the seed contained within its semi- 

 transparent fruit, when it falls from the tree, or is dispersed by birds 

 and monkeys. A palmyra-tree, when in perfection, yields daily 

 about three quails of tari, or palm-wine; which when boiled down 

 produces a pound of coarse sugar, called jaggaree. This also is 

 made of a better quality from the juice of the sugar-cane, which 

 grew plentifully in several parts of my purgunnahs. No finer sugar 

 was manufactured, but a great number of canes were daily sold 

 in the bazars for the fresh juice, which the natives are very fond of. 

 The cane is planted by joints, in regular rows: when arrived at 

 maturity, such as have escaped the depredation of wild hogs (and 

 of elephants where they are indigenous) are cut down; the juice 



