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Life and Writings of Father Beschu 



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ed, — and having crossed the current and turned to the rights they arrived 

 at the land of * Mullet flowing with honey. 



The river pursued its course, increasing in its progress by supplies 

 from different streams swollen by the rains discharged from the passing 

 teeming clouds, — as lies are exaggerated by different fabricators who 

 happen to communicate them in succession, — entering the different vege- 

 table creations, — like truth which carries happy effects in its progress^ 

 and winding like a hooded serpent coming on its way. 



OPERATION OF CULTIVATION. 

 From Padigam. 



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 tainous land. 2nd'-"'"?ei» (Falei) parched or desert land without water. Srd (Jpa^SsJ 

 (Mullei) forest or pasture and shrubby land. 4th ^0(5^^^ (Marudam) well watered or 

 wet land, fitted for cultivation. Sth®,^"-',^^ (Neydal) maritime land, or bordering on 

 the sea. 



In the Tamil grammars arc described the different tribes of men, the different species 

 Of animals, birds, trees, flowers, and produce, S«c,, peculiar to each kind of the said lande. 



