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A plough wrought by one man and two oxen, if the reservoir CHAPTER 
afford all the water that is necessary, can labour two IFoculaAmds 
of irrigated ground: but, if the Capily be used, this stock can only Aug. 1 — 6 . 
cultivate one Wocula- land. The richest farmer in the place, who is i an d wrought 
the Gauda , or chief of a village, whom I have before mentioned, J'[ 0 ^. anJ 
has ten ploughs; 110 other person has above six. About a fourth of stock, 
the cultivators have one plough, a half two, and the remaining 
fourth from three to six. A farmer who has four ploughs, and who 
may be considered as a man in easy circumstances, ought to have 
four men and four women servants with eight oxen. In seed-time 
and harvest he will require eight additional labourers. Two men 
and four oxen are required to work a Capily from sun-rise to sun- 
set. Men servants hired as Batigaru, or by the year, get monthly 
8 Fanams , about 5 s. 4>d., and women get half as much. A man’s 
daily wages is £ of a Fanam , or about 2 d.; a woman’s -^of a Fanam , 
or about farthings. 
The weights used here are, 22 Rupees — 1 Seer ; 56 Seers — 1 Maundy Weights, 
or 31^0- lb. By this every thing sold here is weighed; but goods 
sent to other countries, such as Coco-nuts , are weighed by a Mound 
of 48 Seers, or 2b T V lb. 
Twice a month the Cutwal , or officer of police for the chief town Exchange of 
of the district, assembles the merchants, and settles the exchange mone y- 
of money. At present the Fanam exchanges for lfrf- elephant Dudus , 
and is equal to -fy of a Sultatzy Pagoda . Small copper coins called 
Casu , and equal to -f- of the Dudu, are here in common currency ; 
as are also the shells called Cowries , of which lb are equal to one 
Casu. All accompts are kept in Canter' -ray a Pagodas and Fanams. 
The merchants of Sira possess considerable enterprise, and carry Commerce, 
goods to the countries ceded to the Nizai?i on the south of the 
Krishna , to the country near Darwara ceded to the Marattahs, to 
Chatrakal , to the vicinity of Nagara , to Seringapatam , and to Ban- 
galore ; and merchants from all these countries resort to this 
mart. 
