Feb. 1908.} 



caused by that obtained from any of the 

 other Indian palms. Toddy ,ior the 

 manufacture of jaggery or " gur is 

 collected in pots plastered with slaked 

 lime on the inside. The liquor, which by 

 this means is rendered cool and sweet, is 

 then boiled in iron pans. On becoming 

 thick enough to just drip from the ladle 



139 Fibres, 



, with which the mess is continually 

 stirred, it is poured into flat earthen 

 chatties in which, on cooling, it hardens 

 into gur. — Indian Agriculturist, Nov. 

 1, 1907. 



[This palm, known as Gin-pol, occurs in 

 rivers near Matara and elsewhere in the 

 South-West, and might be utilised.— Ed,] 



