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tbofe which do of nccefEty engage their attention, are often more nicelv 
difcnminatetl, than the fame objefts among more cnlightend people,Avhofe 
ideas ranging over the extenfive field of art and fc ience, difdain to fix 
long on oT>vious and common matters. Paddee^ on Sumatra and the Malay 
iflands, is diftinguilhed into two forts, Laddang or npAmd ^^ddctj and 
SawQcr or low-land, which are always kept feperate, and will not grow 
reciprocally*. Of thefe the former bears the higher price, being a whiter, 
heartier and better flavored grain, and having the advantage in point of 
keeping. The latter is much more prolific from the feed, and fubjeft 
to lefs rifk in the culture, but is of a watery fubftance^ produces lefs 
bcreafe in boiling* and is fubje^t to a fwifter decay. It is however in 
more common life than the former, Befide this general diftindrion, the 
paddee of each fort, particularly the Laddang, prcfents a variety of 
fpecies, which, as far as my information extends, I lhali enumerate, 
and endeavour to defcribe. The common kind of dry ground paddee : 
t color, light brown : the fize rather large, and very little crooked at 
the extremity, Paddee nndaliong.: dry ground ; fliort round grain r 
grows in whorles or bunches round the ftock. Paddee ebbafsi dry 
ground: large grain: common, Paddee ^^jZ/o^; dry ground: light 
colored : fcarce. Paddee /entieei dry ground ; deep colored: fmall grain : 
fcarce, Paddee t/w?; dry ground: light colored. Paddee kooningi dry 
ground : deep yellow ; fine rice : crooked, and pointed. Paddee coocoor 
kiilim: dry ground: much efteemed: light colored; fmall, and very 
much crooked, refemblinga dove*snaii, from whence its name, Paddee 
pijangx dry ground: outer coat light brown; inner red: longer, fmaller 
and lefs crooked than the ceocm tallum. Paddee Samang : the fineft 
fort that is planted in wet ground : fmalJ, flreight, and light colored. 
In general it may be obferved that the larger grained rice is the ieail 
efteeraed, and the fmaller and whiter, the moJl prized. In the Lam- 
poon country they make a diftindion of paddee cru^iPa^igf and paddee 
jerroQj the filrflier of which is a month earlier in growth than the latter. 
It Le Pojvre, m the Travels of a Pbilofophcrj obferves tbc Jknc difluiftion in tUe rice of 
Cochin Clujia. 
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