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Of the bhoga, or third kind of kupas, I have received a Appendix, 

 more particular account. Having occasion to visit the 

 distant dependencies of the Hurriaul aurung in July last, 

 I proceeded beyond Beertausa to the banks of the Bur- 

 rampoota. Having reached this river, the appearance of 

 the Currybarry hills made me desirous of taking a nearer 

 view of them, and I was led on till I reached Chilmary, 

 where they skirt the river. In my way there I stopped at 

 Dewan-gunge, and meeting at this place a very intelli- 

 gent merchant, named Jugul-saw, who had for many 

 years been largely concerned in the cotton-trade of Curry- 

 barry, and who passed a month or two annually in the 

 hills at the Rajah's residence, he gave me the following 

 information of the culture of the bhoga kupas, as prac- 

 tised in the Currybarry hills, which he estimated annually 

 about 20,000 maunds. 



In the month of Maug (Jan.- Feb.) the hill people cut 

 down the cotton-trees of the preceding year, and after let- 

 ting them remain on the ground a month or two they burn 

 them: after which, with a small hand-instrument, the iron 

 of which enters into the ground about the depth of three 

 or four inches, they turn up the earth and mix it with the 

 ashes of the wood, which they consider as a good manure. 

 The first plentiful rains after this operation, whether falling 

 in Cheyte (Mar.- April) or Bysaak (April-May), they sow 

 the cotton-seed, which is put about the depth of two inches 

 into the earth, at the distance of two or three inches from 

 each other. In Jeyte (May- June) the ground is weeded, 

 and at other times when necessary ; but no further trouble 

 is taken, either with the ground or the plants, till the 

 produce is gathered in Kautik (Oct. -Nov.). Jugulsaw 

 added, that he had seen the cotton-plantations in the 

 rains, and that they were always dry, the rains never set- 

 tling on them. He could not, however, inform me of the 

 probable quantity of kupas that each begah had yielded. 



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