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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
All accompts are here kept in Canter" raid Pagodas and Fanams. 
The latter passes at present for 17 Dudus , and 13| are only equal 
to 1 Ikery Pagoda ; but, in order to preserve uniformity, I make all 
my calculations by the exchange at Seringapatam, where 1 & Fanams 
are equal to the Pagoda. In fact, according to the assay made at 
the Calcutta mint, the Ikery or Suit any Pagoda is worth very nearly 
12,913 Fanams ; so that at Seringapatam the Fanam passes for more 
than its intrinsic value, and here it passes for less. The Niruc, or 
rate of exchange, by which all different coins can be offered as .a 
legal tender of payment, is fixed once or twice a month by the 
Amildar , who oil such occasions assembles all the principal mer- 
chants, and acts by their advice. 
The common Cucha seer here weighs only £1 Dabs ; and the 
Maund contains 48 Seers, or is equal to £5 T Vo lb. ; but Jagory , or 
coarse sugar, tamarinds, and Ghee, or boiled butter, are sold by a 
Maund of 5£ Seers, or of £7-ro- lb. 
The Candaca measure contains 160 Seers of the same standard 
with that at Seringapatam. The Sultan failed entirely in his endea- 
vours to introduce an uniformity of weights and measures. Grain 
is always sold by the hundred Seer. 
The trade and manufactures of Colar had been entirely ruined by 
Tip poo ; as it was in the immediate neighbourhood of his enemies 
dominions, with whom he would allow of no communication. Both 
are now rapidly on the increase, and exceed even what they were 
in the reign of Hyder . No army came this way in the last war ; but 
they suffered a little in the invasion by General Smith, and consi- 
derably by that of Lord Cornwallis. The merchants suffered much 
by Tippoo"s forcing goods on them at a high rate ; and still more by 
his capriciously forcing them to change the places of their abode. 
He frequently founded new Bazars , or market towns, and compelled 
merchants to remove thither ; although the place might be quite 
out of the way b}^ which their trade was usually conducted. From 
the officers of the Nabob of Arcot, merchants meet with no annoyance. 
CHAPTER 
July 8,&c. 
Money. 
Weigh ts. 
Measures. 
State of 
commerce. 
