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after the wars with the Mysore sultauns, the wiioie system on the 
Malabar coast was altered, and the present civil and military 
appointments in that quarter are foreign to the subject. A mem- 
ber of the Bombay council was then chief of Tellicherry ; several 
junior servants formed his council, and filled the different depart- 
ments: provisions were cheap and plentiful, especially fish, in 
great variety; it was famous for fine sardinias and excellent oys- 
ters. The trade consisted in pepper, sandal-wood, cocoa-nuts, 
cardamoms, and ureca, the produce of the country; with shark V 
fins, dried fish, and similar articles. 
The cocoa-nut groves on the sea-coast in this part of Malabar 
are very extensive: 1 have fully described this valuable tree at 
Bombay: in Malabar, from the time the nut is planted, until 
the tree begins to bear fruit, is about twelve years; it continues 
in perfection for fifty or sixty years; and in a decaying state, pro- 
duces fruit twenty years longer: it then dies altogether, and is suc- 
ceeded by a new plantation. 
The low lands produce abundance of rice; those that can be 
irrigated give a second crop; the first harvest commences the 
middle of September, at the breaking up of the monsoon; the lat- 
ter about the middle of January: after which, with additional 
manure and watering, they sometimes have a third crop of pulse. 
The plantations of pepper in this part of Malabar are exten- 
sive and valuable; the jacs, mangos, and other high trees, on which 
the vines are trained, add much to the general beauty of the 
country. 
The cardamom, amomum rcpens, Lin. wdiich grows in this 
part of Malabar, is a spice much esteemed by the Asiatics; they 
