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Particular Account oj the Cinnamon, 
arrival, they have been imicli improved, and enclosed with a 
broad embankment. He has also caused a new road to be 
made through them in a different direction from the circular 
one I have already described, but equally excellent and plea- 
sant. 
The plantations, besides yielding cinnamon of an equal qua- 
lity with that found in the wdid state, are infinitely more com- 
modious, from the trees being regularly placed in rows, instead 
of the people employed in barking being obliged to creep 
through intricate and pathless woods in search if it. 
There are two different seasons in which cinnamon is bark- 
ed. The greater quantity is prepared during what is called 
the grand harvest, which lasts from April to August. The lit- 
tle harvest continues for little more than a month, fj-om No- 
vember to January. The barking is, however, by no means 
restricted to these particular seasons ; I have observed bark 
brought in every month of the year. 
Each particular district where the cinnamon grows is bound 
to furnish yearly a certain quantity of cinnamon proportioned 
to the number of the villages and inhabitants which it con- 
tains. I’he Cinglese, in return for this service, have each a 
piece of land allotted them rent free. They are also exempted 
from other government services, and enjoy other privileges in 
proportion to the quantity which they deliver. 
Those who are employed to bark the trees are called schj alias 
by the Dutch, and by us choliahs. Over them are placed offi- 
cers of a superior class, whose business it is to superintend 
the w'orkmen, to take charge of the woods, and to prevent 
cattle and improper persons from trespassing there. Besides 
these, there is a set of officers of a higher cast, called cmna- 
