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f event success attending the efforts of the European Residents in garden- 

 ing. Much however must be ascribed to the general poverty, ignorance and 

 wantofenterprize of its peasantry and agriculturists. No one can enter the 

 enclosures of the Sasans or villages held at a light quit rent by colonies of a 

 particular class of Brahmins, without being instantly struck with the wide 

 difference, which their precincts exhibit, as contrasted with the aspect of 

 ordinary IJria Mouza. The higher description of cultivation which prevails 

 on those lands, the superior value of their produce, and the flourishing 

 groves and gardens which extend all around, evince what may be effected 

 by intelligent industry, secured in the enjoyment of an adequate return and 

 undisputed proprietary possession, even in this little favored soil and climate. 

 It is in such situations only and in the neighbourhood of some of the well 

 endowed temples, that the eye of the botanist is gratified by the presence 

 of those graceful trees and plants, which constitute the chief ornament of 

 the Indian Flora, such as the Nagacesara (Mesua Ferrea), the Moulsari 

 (Mimusops Elengi), the Jonesia Asoca, the Ochna Squarrosa, the Sultan 

 Champa or Calophyllum Inophyllum, the Jarool (Lagerstrcemia Flos Re- 

 gince), and the finer kinds of Ixora, interspersed with Cocoa and Areca nut 

 trees, and plantations of the betle vine, turmeric and ginger. The Sasan 

 Brahmins indeed are the only cultivators or land proprietors ofOrissawho 

 manifest any symptoms of a disposition to improve their system of agricul- 

 ture, or to raise any plant or produce beyond what the wants of nature ab- 

 solutely demand. 



The Domestic Animals of the Mogulbandi do not rank higher in the 

 scale of excellence than the produce of its soil. The horned cattle, sheep 

 and goats are a miserable diminutive breed. A few fine buffaloes are 

 domesticated on the eastern frontier for the sake of their milk, but they 

 are not at all used as beasts of burthen. 



There is little game to be met with, excepting grey partridges, hares, 

 snipes, jungle fowl and ducks of various kinds, and that little is difficult 

 to be got at from the nature of the jungle. Few districts in India perhaps 



