MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
CHAPTER III. 
FROM SERINGAPATAM TO BANGALORE. 
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[1TAVING finished my business at Seringapatam , on the 6th of CHAPTER 
June 1800, I left it early in the morning, and assembled my 
people at a small village, named Gaynangur , which is situated among June 6'. 
the hills north from the river Ccmery . The fields that are at present Appearance 
occupied having now been all ploughed, I observe that a large tr y‘ 
proportion of the arable land is left waste. 
. At Gaynangur there is much talc; but the laminae are not large Minerals, 
enough to serve for glass. It occupies the rents and small veins in 
an extensive chain of quartz, which is in a state of decomposition, 
and of which some parts are red, and some white. By digging 
deep, it is probable that larger pieces of the talc might be found. 
The inhabitants are wonderfully ignorant of the mineral produc- 
tions of their country; for they did not know the limestone nodules, 
so common in this place, when shown to them in their own fields. 
All their lime comes from the city. 
7th June. I went to Mundmm. Not above one third of the Mundium. 
arable land appears to be now occupied. 
The flight of locusts that I saw when I was here last (p. 57), Locusts, 
settled at a village to the' eastward, and ate up all the young Jola. 
The rice land here is watered entirely from tanks or reservoirs ; Watered 
and the cultivation is' never commenced till there be a sufficiency lamL 
of water in the tank to ensure the crop. When the rains set in early, 
and fill the tank timely, the farmers have yearly two crops ; but 
when the early part of the season is dry, they take a Hainu crop of 
WuirEtlu, Udu , Hessaru, or Carlay ; and afterwards, when the tank 
is filled, plough for a crop of Caru rice. 
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