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at Kalpiitiya from Is, 6d. to 2s. per 10% but at the places 

 where they are made not more than from l\d. to 9d. per 100. 



At Madampe, on the other hand, copperah is worth from 

 £ 1. 2s. 6d. to £ 2. 5s. per bar;; poonac, §d. per lb., and oil 

 from 2\d. to %\d. per bottle. About 20,000 or 12,000 bars of 

 eopperah are annually taken to Colombo for sale. 



I ought perhaps to add, that the tree is generally at first 

 grown in nurseries, and that it will bear transplanting at a 

 considerable age. 



It is greatly to be regretted that the upset Government price 

 for land is as high here as in districts of which the capabilities 

 have already been ascertained. Capitalists are unwilling to 

 give the price demanded, knowing, as they do, that natives are 

 in the habit of selling equally good land at rates a half or a 

 third lower: and, on the other hand, they are deterred from 

 buying the ground from natives, partly on account of the diffi- 

 culty which they would experience in purchasing large con- 

 tinuous tracts, and partly from a dread lest their title to the 

 land might at a future period be disputed by Government, 

 which would most probably occur in numerous cases. 



The native mill, being a very imperfect apparatus, large 

 quantities of copperah are annually sent out of the District, 

 chiefly to Colombo* It is much to be desired that the oil 

 itself should alone be transported ; and this cannot be expected 

 until some better kind of mill has been introduced. Many 

 years ago an Englishman began to construct such an apparatus 

 at Kalpitiya; it was made on the plan adopted in Europe, 

 where a heavy vertical wheel is forced to move in a circular 

 path over the substance to be crushed. 



The cultivation of the cocoanut is extending very rapidly, 

 and, as the District affords every facility for water traffic, it 

 may be presumed that the number of topes will be increased 

 year after year. 



The farming system adopted with regard to this plant is 



