since the prevalence of the hot-winds; which seem to counteract 
the efficacy of the waters: those symptoms, in a greater or lesser 
degree, affected all our party, after leaving the coast, refreshed by 
the salubrious breezes from the ocean. 
My stay at Dazagon and the hot-wells, afforded me an oppor- 
tunity of seeing more of Indian farming and agriculture, than the 
contracted limits of Bombay admitted of. The cultivation in the 
Concan, and adjoining districts of the Deccan, is similar to what 
is generally practised in the western parts of Hindostan, at least 
as far as my knowledge extends. The soil varies considerably in 
the same tracts; in some places sandy, others marly, and often a 
rich black earth: sometimes manured with wood-ashes, mixed with 
horse and cow-dung, which is placed in small parcels over the 
field, and afterwards worked in by a harrow, consisting of only 
three or four teeth, like an ordinary rake, drawn by two oxen; the 
plough, rather an aukward and simple instrument, composed of 
three or four pieces of wood, is drawn by two or three yoke of 
oxen, agreeably to the nature of the soil. In other parts of the 
Concan, they manure with leaves and small branches of trees, 
spread over the land, and burnt to ashes, mingled, when procur- 
able, with the dung of cattle; but so much of that is made into 
cakes, dried, and used for fuel by the Hindoos, especially the 
Brahmins, that not much of it comes to the farmer's share. 
The soil, generally shallow, badly ploughed, and slightly har- 
rowed, produces juarree, bajeree, natchnee, and some inferior 
grains; with various kinds of pulse, melons, cucumbers, gourds, 
seeds for oil, and indigenous vegetables: but I believe neither 
cotton nor wheat grow in the southern districts of the Concan, 
