INTRODUCTION. 
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at the same time will in some measure supply the want of 
method, in which I am sorry that the Work is so deficient. 
The following Instructions, which I received from the Governor 
General, before I commenced my Journey, will sufficiently ex- 
plain the views which that distinguished Nobleman had in 
employing me. 
Copy of the Governor General’s Instructions, dated Fort William, 
54 th February 1800. 
“ Your enquiries are to extend throughout the dominions of 
the present Raja of Mysore^nd the country acquired by the 
Company, in the late war, from the Sultarl • as well as to that 
part of Malabar which the Company annexed to their own ter- 
ritories in the former war under Marquis Cornwallis.” 
“ The first great and essential object of your attention should 
be, the Agriculture of the Country; under which head, your en- 
quiries should include and tend to ascertain the following points 
with as much accuracy as local circumstances will admit/’ 
Esculent Vegetables. 
“ The different kinds cultivated by the farmers and natives in 
general, for sale or common use; the modes of cultivation 
adopted for each kind, and the implements of husbandry used 
in them ; the seasons when they are sown and gathered ; the 
manures used for the soil ; and the means adopted for watering 
their grounds ; and as the effecting this last point, in a cheap and 
easy manner, is an essential object to the common farmers in this 
country (Bengal), it would be eligible to have either models or 
drawings made of any description of machinery which may not 
have been seen by you in these parts of India, and which may 
