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THE ORIENTAL ANNUAL. 
crops, without more labour than is necessaryj ust to 
scratch up the surface, so as to cover the seed ; 
neither tilling nor dressing is bestowed upon the 
land, yet the harvest is plentiful ; and neither frost, 
nor snow, nor deluge, nor drought, are known to 
come unseasonably, to interfere with the regular 
operations of the husbandman. Wheat, barley, oats, 
small pulse, and potatoes, have been grown with 
abundant success in the neighbourhood of Ootaka- 
mund, an invalid depot, which was established a few 
years since by the British government ; and despite 
the earnest assurances of the Burgas, that the sacred 
mountains would return no produce to any but the 
devout worshippers of the divine Ram, it has been 
discovered that the presiding genius is, in truth, 
unusually bountiful in repaying the toil of European 
cultivators. 
