MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
221 
Cubits. 
Length. 
Width. 
Highest 1'rice. 
.Lowest -Trice. 
Greatest. 
- 
Smallest. 
Greatest. 
Smallest. 
Suliany 
Fanams, 
English 
Money. 
p- v "> 
R S 
£5 <3 
, R 
Si r <S 
CO ^ 
English 
Money. 
Coloured cotton cloth with 
silk borders made by the 
Devangas. 
Shir ay ------ 
17 
14 
2 
50 
£. s. d, 
1 13 7 
8 
c/* 
0 5 4f 
Kirigay ------ 
12 
9 
if 
If 
20 
0 13 5 
3 
0 2 0 
Cupissa ------ 
- • 
2f 
2 
30 
1 0 if 
8 
0 5 4f 
Cotton cloth made by the 
Shalay and Shaynagaru. 
Dutary - - - - - 
32 
28 
2 
’ll 
20 
0 13 5 
10 
o 6 si 
Sada-Shilla ----- 
32 
2 6 
2 
20 
0 13 5 
10 
0 6 8f 
Asto-eumbi - * - - - 
20 
0 13 5 
10 
0 6' 8f 
Bily-Paggoo ----- 
60 
- “ 
3 
4 
~ - 
30 
1 0 If 
10 
0 6 8f 
Cotton cloth with red bor- 
ders made by the Toga- 
taru*. 
Dotra ------ 
12 
10 
3* 
2f 
12 
0 8 Of 
7 
0 4 8f 
Shir ay ------ 
17 
14 
21 
2 
13 
0 8 8f 
6 
0 4 0 
liornal ------ 
5 
3 
5 
3 
10 
0 6 8f 
ft 
4 
0 2 8 
Coarse cloth wrought by the 
JVhalliaru, and called 
Parcala ------ 

28 
24 
If 
If 
15 
0 10 1 
5 
0 3 4f 
CHAPTER 
IV. 
June 22, &c» 
r 
The weavers of Bangalore seem to me to be a very ingenious class Encourage- 
of men, and, with encouragement, to be capable of making very ecffoVthe" 
rich, fine, elegant cloths of any kind that may be in demand : but, weavers of 
. . „ Bangalore,. 
having been chiefly accustomed to work goods for the use of the 
court at Seringapatam, they must now labour under great disadvan- 
tages : for it never can be expected, that the court of Mysore should 
equal that of Seringapatam , nor will the English officers ever de- 
mand the native goods, so much as the Mussulman Sirdars did. The 
