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the lotus-ponds, and used for growing plants in pots, or 
for enriching any particular tree which may be a favourite 
in the garden. 
Although the land is sometimes allowed to lie idle for 
some months, yet there is no regular system of fallowing, 
nor is the rotation of crops much known or practised. 
Indeed, as regards the low lands, the soil being a kind of 
stiff, strong clay, capable of jdelding many crops of rice 
in succession, without being in any way burthened or 
impoverished, no such mode of cultivation is necessary. 
