MYSORE, C ANAR A, AND MALABAR. m 
In the country round Colar, the irrigated land is watered entirely CHAPTER 
by means of reservoirs. When any rich man builds one of these, 
in order to acquire a name and reputation, it is customary to give July 8,&c. 
Reservoirs 
him and his heirs, free of rent, one-tenth part of the land which the 
reservoir waters, and also for every Candaca of watered land thus 
formed, he obtains, free of rent, six Seers sowing of Ragy-land , which 
amounts to about 146 acres of dry field for every 1000 acres of that 
which is irrigated. So long as he enjoys these, he is bound to keep 
the tank in repair. If the reservoir be very large and expensive, 
the man who builds it, and his heirs, have one-fourth of the land 
which it waters ; but then they get no dry-field. When the family 
of the original builder becomes extinct, the government reassumes 
the free lands, and keeps the tank in repair. Very great tanks, 
however, have seldom been formed by private persons ; and those 
which cost 20,000 Pagodas (6,74 61. 1 5s. 10|r/.), or upwards, have 
almost all been made at the immediate expense of the government. 
The farmers contribute nothing toward the building or repairing of 
tanks; but when, from a great and sudden influx of water, one is in 
danger of bursting, they all assemble, and work to clear the sluice 
(Cody), and other passages for letting off the superfluous water. 
They form the channels for conveying the water to their fields ; 
and from their share -of the crop are paid the Nirgunties , by whom 
it is distributed. Six of these are sufficient to manage 150 Candacas 
of land, which is about one hundred acres for each man. 
The crops raised at Colar on watered land are rice, sugar-cane, 
Betel-leaf, Carlay, Hessaru, Udu , Jala, TVulV Ella , and kitchen stuffs, 
called here Tarkark 
The quantity of rice sown here is nearly equal to that of Ragy, 
The kinds are 
