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much intelligence, had a very conciliating man¬ 
ner. The land produces rice towards the lakes, 
and in the higher grounds various pulses. Three 
crops of rice are generally produced yearly, and 
always two. The best crop is obtained with the 
assistance of the periodical rains : this is of white 
rice of the finest quality. The next two crops 
are obtained by the assistance of irrigation from 
the lakes, and consist of coarse red rice, used 
only by the peasantry, and little esteemed. The 
produce of rice for the seed sown, appears at 
the highest to be twenty-five fold, but, on an 
average, does not exceed ten. This is the 
lowest production in this grain which I have 
ever heard of. In Pegu, the produce seldom 
falls short of fifty, and often comes up to 
eighty-fold. In some of the lands now alluded 
to, the husbandry followed is, to take a crop of 
rice in the wet season, and a crop of pulses in 
the dry. Under this management, the average 
produce of rice is fifteen-fold; and when the 
pulse sown is the Cicer arietinum , the pea given 
as common food to horses throughout the Ben¬ 
gal provinces, the produce is as much as forty¬ 
fold. With pulses less productive, but more 
esteemed for food, several species of Pliaseolus 
and Dolichos , it is no more than fifteen or 
twenty-fold. We measured one field, which 
