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better. Yet here nature does every thing ; it remains only for them 
to extend their hands, and partake of what she offers. 
Among their vegetables, the turnips peculiar to this country, deserve 
a decided preference over all those that I have ever seen. They are 
large, free from fibres, and remarkably sweet; and it is with justice, 
that the inhabitants pride themselves on their great superiority. 
Though bad gardeners, they are better husbandmen, and display 
much industry in the management of their grounds. I have always 
observed their corn fields very neatly dressed; but in this, the men can 
claim but little merit, for by far the greatest labour falls upon the fair 
sex: they plant,they weed, and to them, eventually, the task falls, of 
applying the sickle and the flail. In a thousand laborious offices, they 
expose themselves to hardships and inclement weather, while the 
lords of the creation, wrapt in inglorious ease, enjoy the fruits of their 
toils. 
The heat was rather too powerful to admit our being abroad during 
all the day, but in the evening of Wednesday, the 9th of July, we took 
a very long walk up the valley to the Raja’s villa, called Zemrigatchee. 
We found this palace, as well as the adjoining garden, situated upon 
rising ground, much more elevated than that by which we approached 
it. We ascended the bank, and turning to the left, came to a small 
pavilion, erected upon a high perpendicular point, that overlooked the 
river, and commanded a pleasant prospect down the valley ; huge 
mountains interposed to circumscribe the view above. The palace was 
not entirely visible from hence, but partially concealed by firs, and. 
dusters of bamboos, growing in the intermediate space. The pavilion. 
