MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 
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beaten off 200 of the Marattah cavalry, of whom several men and CHAPTER 
horses were killed. 
In favourable years the greatest part of the watered-land is cul- Au S t— & 
Watered- 
tivated with rice. In dry seasons a little only of this grain is raised, land, 
and the cultivation consists chiefly of transplanted Bagy, wheat, 
Jola, and Namny , which require less water. Sugar-cane is always 
cultivated. Gardens occupy the remainder of the watered-land. 
The kitchen gardens, in the whole district, amount to only four or 
five Colaga lands ; that is, to about six acres. The palm gardens 
now amount to ten Candaca lands, about 300 acres ; and before 
Purser am Bhow's invasion extended to three times that size. In 
Sira , and the districts south from it, are many very valuable plan- 
tations of this kind, producing the betel-nut of the kind called Wal- 
lagram ; but, until I get more into the heart of that part of the 
country, I shall defer giving an account of them. 
In the accompanying table, as at Madhu-giriy I have given some Cultivation 
of the particulars of the cultivation of watered-grounds, and shall j° a f n j^ tered * 
afterwards proceed to detail the remainder* 
