MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
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by their wearing no linen. The sheep are shorn twice a year, CHAPTER 
once in the cold, and once in the rainy season ; and twelve sheep 
give as much wool, as makes a blanket six cubits long and three 
wide. 
In this neighbourhood are many kitchen gardens, which are very Gardens, 
well cultivated. A gardener is here a separate profession from a 
farmer, and is considered as inferior in rank. The gardens are 
on sloping ground, watered from wells by the Yatam, or, as the 
English say, by the Pacota. This is reckoned hard labour ; and a 
man who works constantly at the Yatam, receives daily a quarter 
of a rupee, or about pence. These gardeners cultivate a little 
sugar-cane, but merely to supply the market with cane for eating. 
All that, of which Jagory is made, is raised on irrigated lands by 
the farmers. The gardeners frequently cultivate the betel leaf, 
(Piper Betle L.) and for that purpose hire from the farmers a por- 
tion of their watered lands. 
The soil of the gardens here is very deep ; as, where wells have Soil, 
been dug, it exceeds twenty feet in thickness. 
May 9th. — I went to Catcolli through a country containing much Face of the 
less granite than any that I have yet seen above the Ghats. The countr y- 
arable land may amount to seven tenths of the whole, and perhaps 
a twentieth part of it is watered. The rice lands are mostly 
situated near the banks of the southern Pennar, or Dakshana Pina- 
Jcani, as it is called in the Sanscrit language. This river passes 
southward by the east side of Catcolli. At present it contains a 
good deal of stagnant water ; but in the rainy season its current is 
rapid, and it is frequently not fordable. The waste land contains 
much low brush wood, in some places intermixed with stunted 
Mimosas . The hedges surrounding the villages, in this part of the 
country, rise very high and thick, so as almost entirely to conceal 
the mud Avail, which enlivens the prospect considerably, especially 
as at the villages there are a good many mango trees. The planting 
of these, or other fruit trees, is here attended with a considerable 
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