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The cultivation is said to extend but a short distance from the CHAPTER 
road, there being on either hand extensive woods. I therefore 
reckon the arable land, on this day’s route, at one tenth of the Face of the 
country. It consists entirely of dry-fields. 
At a small, temple, dedicated to Hanumanta , I observed, for the Red granite, 
first time, the rock of red granite. It is a handsome variety, con- 
sisting of bright red felspar , a small quantity of glassy quartz , and 
a very minute proportion, of black mica. I had before seen many 
detached masses of it in buildings ; so that it is probably common 
in the country. It is a most elegant stone. 
Chinapatam, or Chinapatana, is an open town, containing about a Chinapatam. 
thousand houses. At some distance from it stands a handsome stone 
fort : this was formerly the residence of a Polygar family of 
distinction, which derived its name from Jacadha Raia. 
The Cutwal , or superintendent of the market at Chinapatam , is a Inhospitable 
Mussulman, and is extremely attentive to strangers. This, how- ^native ° f 
ever, does not proceed from any principle of hospitality, a virtue officer& * 
which seems little known in India. He expects a present in return, 
and charges three times the usual price for every thing that he 
furnishes. Between this and Madras I have met with two other 
native officers that were civil. One of these was a eunuch, the 
Cutwal at Satghur in the dominions of the Nabob of Arcot; but he 
seemed to be actuated by the same motives with the Cutwal of Chin- 
apatam. The other was a Brahman, the Amildar at Waluru , who was 
very polite, and did not seem to have any sinister design. Among 
all the other officers of government, I found that any attention to 
a traveller was considered as degrading to their rank, and could 
only be extorted by authority. 
In sight of Chinapatam , but at a considerable distance, is Capdla Capdla 
durga, one of the places to which Tippoo sent those unfortunate durga ' 
wretches who incurred his displeasure. It is a fort situated on a 
high steep rock. Death soon terminated the sufferings of those 
confined in it ; for the air and water were extremely bad ; and the 
