10 
A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH 
CHAPTER boil down into Jagory . The tree produces at all seasons. One man 
can take care of 200 trees: from which, according to their ac- 
count, he can extract annually 20 Manugu , or about 482 pounds 
of Jagory , worth at this place, 6 Pagodas ; which, at the usual ex- 
change, is £9. Ss. or rather more than eleven shillings the cwt. 
Resides, the Shanan daily sells one or two Fanams ’ worth of Thru 
According to this account, the produce of two hundred Palmira 
trees would be % * 
Jagory - - - - Pagodas 6 0 
Tari at 1 ^ Fanam daily - - - - ]5 7 ! 
21 7\ 
Deduct rent at 2 Fanams a tree - « 114 
Choultry of 
Vira Pei mat. 
Appearance 
of the coun- 
try. 
Profit - - Pagodas 10 3j 
I suspect, that by this account the produce is under-rated. If it 
were true, I can hardly see, how the Shanan could maintain a 
family in a country where provisions are by no means cheap. 
The inn, Choultry , or Chaturarn , of Vira Permal Pillay consists of 
two square courts enclosed by low buildings, which are covered 
with a tiled roof, and divided into small apartments for the accom- 
modation of travellers. The buildings on the outside are surrounded 
by a colonnade, and are constructed of well cut, whitish, granite, 
brought from the distance of twenty miles. Although said to 
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have cost 15,000 Pagodas , or£o515. 8 s. 1 d. they are very mean 
structures. 
April 9.6th . — In the morning I went from Vira PermaVs Choultry \ 
to the greater Conjeveram , called by the natives, Kunji. The coun- 
try is in general level, but the soil is wretched. It consists chiefly 
of a coarse sand, seemingly deriving its origin from decomposed 
granite, and at this season of the year is almost destitute of 
vegetable covering ; nor is it perhaps capable of being ever 
converted to use. Some spots possess a tolerable soil, and in these 
