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hundred pounds; the price varies from one hundred to one hundred 
and forty rupees; and a contract was made for four thousand can- 
dies, in 1794, at two hundred rupees the candy.” 
The same writer mentions that, in the year 1757, the king of 
Travencore having received some assistance from the English was 
willing to favour their commerce: on this occasion Mr. Spencer, the 
English chief of Anjengo, took an account of the pepper produced 
in the dominions of that prince, where there was no land-tax, but 
where the king monopolized all the pepper, and gave the cultiva- 
tors a fixed price for whatever they could raise. The whole quan- 
tity of pepper raised in the dominions of Travencore amounted to 
eleven thousand seven hundred candies; for this the king gave to 
the cultivators thirty rupees a candy. The amount of the sales, 
even including two thousand candies that were given to the Eng- 
lish Company at the low price of eighty-two rupees, came to 
13,12,260 rupees, or on an average one hundred and eleven rupees 
a candy: the king did not, therefore, allow the cultivators more 
than twenty-seven per cent, of the produce; yet the cultivation 
was carried on with the greatest spirit. 
The cassia resembles the bay-tree, of which it is a species:- it 
is called cassia lignea, to distinguish it from the laurus-cinna mo- 
mum, or true cinnamon, to which it is very inferior: the finest 
cassia sometimes possesses the peculiar properties of that valuable 
spice, but is in general of a coarser texture and less delicate 
flavour. The real cinnamon seems indigenous to Ceylon; there 
are some trees in the Company’s garden at Anjengo, as a curiosity. 
The leaves of the cassia are smaller than the laurel, and more 
pointed; those of the cinnamon still more delicate: the blossoms 
