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Appendix, only one crop, I should have concluded from all these 

 circumstances that it would be no other than the soondy, 

 which I have seen on the banks of the Islam atty or the 

 Teepy, which grows in Boosna, had not two strong objec- 

 tions presented themselves. 



The Dacca plant was said to produce from five to ten 

 maunds of 80 sicca- weight, and to sell in the Mofussil at 

 seldom less than four or five rupees per maund ; and this 

 year, in the Dacca bazar, at eight rupees per maund of 

 80 sicca-weight. Now neither the soondy nor torpy 

 kupas are said to produce more than three maunds of 

 60 siccas, and the medium Mofussil price of cheap and 

 dear years of dessy kupas in the Hurriaul aurung is not 

 higher than Rs. 2. 8. per maund of 60 siccas. 



The difference in price may be reconciled, either from 

 the demand for dessy kupas in the Dacca province being 

 generally greater than in the aurung of Hurriaul, or from 

 the circumstances of the superior kupas sold at the latter 

 place being mixed with a much greater proportion of the 

 inferior sort. But the difference of the produce is so 

 great, that unless the Dacca account has been greatly 

 over estimated, and my accounts equally under estimated, 

 it is scarcely possible to account for such a difference in 

 the produce of the plants from any peculiarity in the 

 qualities of their respective soils. Unable to obviate or 

 establish this last objection, I cannot determine whether 

 the kupas in question be, or be not, the produce of a dis- 

 tinct plant. 



Of the cultivation of the byratty, or second kind of 

 kupas used in the Hurriaul aurung, I have not been able 

 to obtain any other information, than that the seed is 

 sown in Kautik (Oct. -Nov.), and produces on an average 

 about five maunds per begah in Cheyte (Mar.-April) 

 following, and that the plant grows to the height of from 

 three to four and a half feet. 



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