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'• The trees around them all their food produce, 



" Lotos the name; divine nectareons juice ! 



" (Thence call'd lotophagi) which whoso tastes, 



" Insatiate riots in the sweet repasts." Odyssey 



Three valuable articles might be cultivated in Guzerat to a 

 much greater extent, which would yield an ample profit, if the 

 speculation did not interfere with the West India trade to Eng- 

 land ; these are the sugar-cane, tobacco, and indigo; the luxuri- 

 ance of these productions, when planted in a congenial soil, indi- 

 cates the source of wealth that would accrue to the cultivator on a 

 larger scale, without encroaching on the quota of land set apart 

 for the necessary supply of corn, oil, and pulse of various kinds. 

 Mulberries of three different sorts flourish in the Guzerat gardens ; 

 the small red, the white, and a long curling kind, hanging in ap- 

 pearance like so many caterpillars. Each of these kinds grow from 

 cuttings without the smallest trouble; they only require to be 

 stuck in the ground in the rainy season, and lake their chance 

 afterwards. Thus silk in any quantity might be produced in vari- 

 ous purgunnas. Opium perhaps would not be so productive in all 

 places where the poppies would grow ; nor is it desirable, from 

 the fatal purpose to which it is converted in most parts of India 

 and China. Hemp and flax would flourish in the northern dis- 

 tricts, and cotton is a staple commodity of Guzerat. 



The villages in the Brodera purgunna, like those of the adjacent 

 districts, are seldom more than two miles from each other. The 

 natives all live either in towns or villages; a single farm-house, or 

 even a separate cottage, is not often seen ; incursions of wild 

 beasts, and in many tracts of wilder men, is a sufficient reason for: 



