m 



GAMBrR. 



renters will, even at the riak of destroying the 



them md the leaves into esLixmut* Titers 

 at present upwarrl^i eight liiiiulrcd plantations 

 in Rhio, comph^tely ruined by this systenu wliich 

 took place in the month of April last, at which 

 time ^tnijir esttract was in very great demand, 



attached to about every forty Gamhir plantittiotlS-. 

 It niay be observed, that during- the rainy season 

 the extract produced is of an inferior quality to 

 that which is made during hot, dry weather, 

 ulthou^h the foliage beimg in gj!eafc«af ]^pmtim^ 

 more extract is ^rielded if them. 



Dnrinn the wet season, vegetation is very ra]>id 

 in its [n'Ogress un the shrubs : if stii]t]>ed entirely 

 of their foliage, it is not an nnuuniuiou circum- 

 al^iMse, in -the of ^ see ihetJ^ te- 



liewed) and covered with rex^m^, Tlie prodac*- 

 tion of Gand)ir, during* the yearl!*i2.0, amounted to 

 thirty-one thousand peeuls; in 1830, it amounted 

 to thirty -live tliousand peculs ; iu 1831, to forty- 

 ^leitr^ itt^aaiid pmklt In ISSS^ 1»» «kty-three 

 ih^a^d peienk^ t.wSi for the pmait year, 1833, 



will amount to full seventy tliousaud peeuls; and 

 each pecul, of one liuiidn'd and tbirt\-tliree 

 [lounds, pays to tlie Dutch goveniuient tlu^ suni 

 of eight rupees, which, at seventy thousand pr- 



