1 102 Account of Khyrpoor and the Fortress of Bukur. [No. lOI 



Tlie Ameers deal extensively in grain, whicli they horde and bring into 

 the market when a scarcity occurs, either from a failure of the inundations, 

 or the demands of levies in war time. Meer Roostura instead of alleviating 

 the distress of his subjects, and thwarting the combinations of grain 

 merchants, helps to raise the prices, and imitating Moohummud Alee in 

 Egypt, buys up and monopolizes the produce of his country. 



The following were the common rates of land assessment in the district 

 of Roree on the north bank of the Indus,* for the harvest year 1250-51 

 corresponding with a.h. 1255 and a.d. 1839, levied in the Khyrpoor 

 currency. 



per jureh, 



:.) 



Riibbee Harvest. 



Tobacco, 



Opium, 



Wheat, 



Khiyar, Khonbee, or Masfur, 



Hemp, Cucumbers, Water and Musk Melons, . . . 



Barley, 



Ekura or Shumleet, a kind of Spinach, ... 



Paluk, a kind of Spinach, Onions, the Egg plant, 



Keenu or Urzun, a kind of Millet, 



Surshuf mustard (which is also collected in kind) gar 



lie, cummin, anise and Wadsh or Badiyanu, .. 

 Surshuf or Sirson, Moong (Phaseolus mungo), Jan or 



Ujmood, and Pease (Ruwa,) are collected in kind, 



(bhutaee) at the rate of a third of the produce per 



jureb of wet land. 



Khureef Harvest. 



Sugar-cane, per jureh. 



Cotton, 



Joowara (large maize) carrots, turnips, radishes, Toore, 1 



(a kind of cucumber) Eroun, pumpkin, Kurela, a vege- (^ 



table, (Momordica charantia), and Mehra, another I 

 kind of vegetable, ... ... ... ... ...^ 



The following pay in kind, a third if grown upon land 

 flooded by the Indus,. and if irrigated by the wheel, 

 only a fourth. — Rice, Bajra (Holcus spicatus,) Indigo, 



* The harvest year terminates in the middle of the year of Higra. 



s. 



As. 



6 



4 



6 







4 



14 



4 



12 



4 



10 



4 







3 



14 



3 



12 



3 



4 



3 



R$. As. 



10 8i 

 4 12 



. 4 8 



