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appear to you to be likely to effect so beneficial an end. It 
would also be advisable for you to observe whether the poorer 
natives make use of any vegetables for food, which you may have 
seen in this country, but which may not here be in use for human 
food.” 
Cattle. 
44 The different breeds, and the manner in which they are 
bred and kept ; the species used in agriculture ; and whether the 
produce of the country be sufficient, without importation, to 
answer its demands. And as the improvement of the breed of 
horses in this country has become an object of particular atten- 
tion to government, it would be proper for you to ascertain how 
far the breed made use of, in the parts you may visit, might be 
eligible to promote this desirable end.’' 
Farms. 
44 The general extent of them; the nature of the tenures by 
which they are held ; the usual price of labour, and the manner 
of payment, whether in kind or specie. You will compare the 
general state of agriculture in Mysore , kc . with that of such 
parts of Bengal as you may be acquainted with ; and state your 
opinion, how far the cultivation of either country may be im- 
proved, or extended, by the introduction of the vegetables, cattle, 
or rural economy of the other.’’ 
44 The next immediate object of your attention should be, those 
natural productions of the country, which are made use of in 
arts, manufactures, or medicine, and particularly those which 
are objects of external commerce.” 
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