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Land Revenue. — It appears, that the only land assessed, was that on 

 which sugar cane, hemp, indigo, onions, garlic and turmeric were grown : 

 the annual tax upon a piece of land, one hundred and fifty feet square, sown 

 with sugar cane or indigo, was two rupees, and one rupee for hemp on the 

 same measurement : onions, garlic, and turmeric, on a slip of ground, one 

 hundred and fifty long by three feet wide, paid eight annas. Revenue on 

 the produce generally was levied at one uniform rate throughout the king- 

 dom ; every plough drawn by buffaloes was assessed at ten layngs, but ploughs 

 drawn by bullocks paid only ten tanyngs annually. The average number of 

 ploughs employed annually, amounted to about three thousand* 



Fisheries. — For the privilege of using or fishing in the tanks or fresh water 

 lakes, two rupees were annually exacted from every thirty houses ; nets used 

 in the rivers, were assessed according to their size, averaging from two to 

 ten rupees each per annum ; where stakes were used, the taxation was regu- 

 lated according to the nature of the bank, and the distance staked in : the 

 revenue derived from the fisheries, amounted to about two thousand rupees 

 annually. 



Productions. — Teak timber is to be had in the hills, at the source of the 

 Kaladyne and Murasay rivers, but the difficulty in bringing it down to the 

 plains, so much enhances the price, that it is found a cheaper plan to import 

 it from Rangoon and LaymeajiUt in the district of Bassein. 



The Garjan tree called Kanyeng, red Jarutt and Tun, abound on the 

 banks of the Nafsxvdi Meyu^ near the foot of the mountains. 



The pine apples and plantains of this Province are, perhaps, the finest 

 flavored in the world, and procurable in the greatest abundance. Mangoes, 

 jack fruit, sweet limes, and cocoa-nuts, are also abundant j but oranges are 



