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CHAPTER forty Seers of water. With this decoction mix the juice expressed 
from the former materials, and boil again. While it is boiling, put 
Jury 2o, &c. } n J[ reca nut, after it has been cut, until the pot be full. Imme- 
diately after, take it out with a ladle, and put in more, till the whole 
is boiled. In order to be dried, it must be three days exposed on 
mats to the sun, and is then fit for sale. It is bought up chiefly by 
the merchants of the place, and by those of Gubi. To enable the 
farmer to pay his rent, which is a certain fixed sum of money, it is 
customary for the merchant to make advances. Forty Mauncls of 
dried nut is here reckoned the common produce of a ColagaA and, 
which is about six hundred weight and one third an acre, or for 
each tree about IT lb. At Chandra-giri, near this place, the produce 
is one half more, or 60 Maunds. The former custom was for govern- 
ment to give every person who undertook to make a plantation of 
palms an advance of 100 Fanams (3/. 7 s. 1 d.) and of 10 Colagas 
(about 33-f- bushels) of grain, for every Colaga acre) of land that 
he engaged to plant. The first year’s rent was 30 Fanams ; the se- 
cond year’s rent 40 Fanams ; from the third until the twelfth year 
60 Fanams ; the thirteenth year 100 Fanams ; the fourteenth and 
subsequent years 166 Fanams. These rents, reduced to the acre at 
the Seringapaiam exchange, and small fractions being omitted, 
will be : 
Yams,, 
1st year - 
2d year - 
3d— IS thy ears - 
13th year » - 
Full rent - 
The full rent at Chandra-giri is 250 Fhfiams , or about 5 1 . 10 s. an 
acre. This high rent is, however, greatly less than one half of the 
produce. 
- £.0 13 5 
- 0 17 11 
1 6 10 
- 21 4 7 
3 14 3 
Among the betel-leaf gardens in this neighbourhood a few Yams 
( Dioscorea ) are planted ; and this is the only place above the Ghats 
where I found that valuable root cultivated. In the betel-nut 
