ORIENTAL COMMERCE. 



[Cnaftt of Malabar, 



The maund, by which goods are sold in the market, is 46 seers, or 

 28.14- lbs.. — The maund by which the merchants purchase, and by which 

 the Company buy and sell, weighs lb* rupees more, or 28.55 lbs. — Jaggery 

 is bought and sold by the maund of 40 seers, or 24*4? lbs. 



The candy, or bam, contains 20 maund s, and varies accordingly, 

 from 571 lbs. to 069j lbs. 



Measures.— The seer in the bazar is formed by mixing equal quanti- 

 ties of salt, and of the nine most common grains, awl then by taking of 

 the mixture 84 Bombay rupees weight ; this fills the seer measure, and is 

 about 73,683 cubical inches. The inoray, or mudi, contains 38 seers, or 

 about lrfr bushel English. 



The grain measure, by which the farmers sell their crops, is thus 

 formed : — 64.195 cubical inches make I hauy, 14 hanies make 1 cullishigay, 

 3 cullishigays make 1 mudi, or moray, which is about 1.2525 bushel. 



Grain, salt, and sometimes pepper, are sold by measure ; of this last, 

 a pucka seer, or 73.683 cubical inches, is reckoned to weigh 51 \ Bombay 

 rupees, or 21 oz, avoirdupois. The corge of* 42 robins for rice is 49 

 morays. 



SECTION XVI. 

 COAST OF MALABAR. 



This coast is said to commence about eight leagues to the S. of 

 Mangalore, at a place railed Dedal), where there is a white wall in ruins 

 visible from the ofling. From thence it extends to Cape Comorin ; but 

 Mount Dilla, a conspicuous headland, in latitude 1 1° 59' N., and longitude 

 75° 31' E., is considered by navigators as the limit between the Coasts of 

 Canara and Malabar. This is the narrowest part of the channel between 

 the main and the Laccadives, the distance being 27 leagues. 



BILLIAPATAM is on the banks of a river, about six miles to the 

 E. of Mount Dilla. The river extends a considerable distance inland, but 

 is only navigable by small vessels, it having a bar with from one to two 



