1849.] Slatisllcs of the Cirear of Dowlulabad, 499 



striking in beauty are the grislea, pavetta, prosopis, flacourtia, 

 banhima, clematis, combretum, celastrus, climbing solanum, butea, 

 numerous kinds of asclepiacese and mimosa. The most conspicu- 

 ous within the ravines are the sterculia urens, dalbergia oojienensis, 

 begnonia, erythrina, santalum, grislea, boswellia ; one or two varie- 

 ties of bombacea, phyllanthus, nerium, gardenia, grewia, gmelina, 

 conocarpus, bambusa, ficus, tectona grandis, and cedreela toona, the 

 specimens of the latter have evidently been planted. The more 

 lowly forest vegetation that claims a passing notice under this head, 

 is the gloriosa superba, capparis, ajiiga spermadictyon, evolvulus 

 hirsuta, gentiana verticillata, justicia, lavandula burmi, plumbago, 

 loranthus, nerium odorum, oxalis, and tamarisk. Before closing 

 these remarks I would observe that the size of the trees increase 

 as the country rises towards the north amongst the rich valleys 

 of which, very noble specimens of the forest may be seen. As 

 instances of which I may mention having measured at Nangapoor 

 the stem of a butea frondosa, usually met with as a lowly grow- 

 ing shrub, here expanding into a girth of thirteen feet and a 

 half, with proportionate height of upwards of sixty feet; the stems 

 of the milk bushes measured three feet round. At Tajnapoor a melia 

 azederachta was thirty-five feet round the but, and eighty feet high; 

 and at Padree a venerable tamarind tree supposed by tlie villagers 

 to be three hundred years old, is seventy-four feet high and thirty- 

 six in circumference. 



Mode of Cultivation. 



Such is the remarkable social condition of the natives of India that 

 it is by no means improbable the state of agriculture witnessed now- 

 a-days, was pretty much the same as practised at very remote periods; 

 a polity like theirs, which condemns the great body of the people to 

 a hopeless state of degradation, confining their enjoyments of life to 

 the very lowest minimum of all things needful and necessary, must 

 tend as a matter of course to repress every desire for improvement, 

 in the benefits of which they would not be allowed to participate. 

 If to this cause be not attributed the low state that we find agriculture 

 languishing under, it will be difficult to seek elsewhere for more suf- 

 ficient reasons. The (Koonbees) cultivators are, generally speaking, 

 an inoffensive, temperate, and all things considered, a hard working 

 class; by no means deficient in intelligence, and well acquanited 



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