con*. — Geitlparative Fertility, §c, 91 



European contemporary accounts, — the population of 

 the city of Malacca, when first attacked by the 

 Portuguese, amounted, independent of the country or 

 interior population, to 190 ,000 souls. If this number- 

 in- SaJ 200,000 for tlie whole, — were supported by the 

 grain produce of that country, it must have required 

 an extent of 102 J square miles or 49,602 orlong> to 

 tune been under TUSB cultivation, supposing the ferti- 

 lity to have equalled that of the Keddah coast as 

 above given. Being a commercial state, however, it 

 is probable that it received grain from other countries. 

 It is only in those Malayan states where agriculture 

 seems to have never been entirely subordinate to 

 trade, that we now find a fixed agricultural popula- 

 tion of any considerable ma gi jit ude, Java Mas one 

 of these; Keddali, Perak, Patani and Trau^anoo, with 

 Ligor, and Sangora, were probably also in the H>t. 

 Keddah, from its portion and genera] features, must 

 always* have been a grain country. Its commerce, 

 never extensive, was in the hands of its rajahs, and 

 their favorites, and when that was all but annihilated 

 by the drain caused by the new channels into which 

 trade flowed consequent on the proximity of Europe- 

 an settlements, the population sustained little compa- 

 rative diminution ; and continued to raise supplies of 

 grain for its neighbours as well as itself, until, falling 

 under foreign dominion, its energies were paralysed 

 and its population dispersed. 



The Imports and Exports of Rice for this Settle- 

 ment are as follow : — 



IMPORTS. 



Coyans. Bugs t Coy am. Gwttingt. 



For the year ending 

 30lh September 1833 3,I97| 6,052 



For the J-year end- 

 in- 30th Sept. 1834. . 72 1 tt,$&& 



Total " 4,357 80 



