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Company's botanical garden, where,'! hear, they have produced a very 

 handfome flower. This plant was cultivated by the Garrows, nearly in 

 the fame manner, as we do potatoes in England ; a bud being broken off 

 to be fown for a plant. The Garrows fay it yields, after it is dug out of the 

 ground, and laid by for the enfuing feafon of cultivation (commencing im- 

 mediately on the breaking up of the rains) from three to ten buds. Another 

 fort of Kutchu grows at the tops of the hills, and is found by its fprout, which 

 twifts itfelf round the trunk, and branches of trees. I have feen the fprout 

 from ten to twenty feet high, the leaves havethree fegments like a vine leaf, 

 but more pointed : of deep green, and very fmall. The root'is found from 

 a foot to two i feet -and a half below the ground, is in fha-pe tapering, of a 

 reddifh colour, and in length from five inches to a foot and a half: it is 

 eaten roafted. The other fpecies grows in the fame manner, but is of a 

 dirty yellow colour.' 



The houfes ofthefe Garrows, called Chaungs, are raifed on piles, about' 

 three or four feet from the ground, from thirty to 150 feet in length ; and 

 in breadth from ten to forty, and are roofed with thatch. The props of the 

 C/jaung confift of large faul timbers: in the centre there are eight, and 

 on the fides from eight to thirty : over thefe are placed horizontally large 

 timbers, for a fupport to the roof, and tied fait, fometimes with firings, but 

 firing is rarely ufed for this purpofe ; the tying work being moftly done" 

 with flips of grafs or cane. The roof is neatly executed and with as much 

 regularity as any of our Bungalow thatches. When 1 fay this, however, 

 I fpeak of the Chaungs of the Booneahs': I went into few of the Chaungs of 

 the lower clafs. The roof con fills of mats and ftrong grafs. The fided 

 of the houfe are made from the fmall hollow bamboos cut open, flatted; 

 and woven as the common mats are. The floor is made in the fame man- 



