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from Arabia; sugar, and a considerable quantity of salt; for 
although Ganara produces a sufficient quantity for its own con- 
sumption, it can by no means supply the vast demand of the table- 
land without importation. The very great balance in favour of 
Mangalore is paid in specie. 
Two rivers, that take their rise in the hills, here enter the sea, 
the one from the north, the other from the south, which bring 
down in the rainy season the lofty timber that has been felled 
during the dry season, and conveyed by great exertions to their 
banks. I saw some spars that were ninety feet long, and a quantity 
of timber well adapted for naval purposes, which Admiral Rainier 
had directed to be sent to the dock-yard at Bombay. It is extremely 
unfortunate that the bar, which has at present only ten feet water 
on it, prevents Mangalore from becoming a naval station, for which 
it is so well adapted, by the extensive supply of timber, the fertility 
of the country around it, and the salubrity of the climate. Here are 
the magazines for the sandal- wood, which grows on the Mysore 
hills, and of which the India Company have a monopoly from the 
Rajah. The quantity and the price of it are very uncertain, varying 
according to the size of the stick, which is sometimes in diameter 
only three inches, and rarely exceeds a foot. It is cut into logs of 
four feet long by the axe ; were it done with a saw, the saving 
would be very considerable ; but it is difficult to persuade an Indian 
to change his instruments. The sandal is chiefly exported to China, 
where it is burnt by the Chinese on certain festivals before the 
images of their ancestors. 
Fortunately for the province of Canara, it has had able and 
liberal men to govern it, since it fell under the British Govern- 
