1708. | 
where the price depends on the diftance 
to which the earth is removed. 
Gardeners here come to labour at 
feven in the morning, goto dinner at 
twelve, return at three o'clock in the 
afternoon, and go home at fun fet. 
21. Improvement here is to flood the 
Jand, fo as to render it fit for rearing 
rice, which is efeemed the moft valuable 
crop. a 
22. There is nothing fimilar to the 
bent and heath of muir land here, to be 
paired and burned: but in clearing land 
for cultivation, the underwood and 
branches of trees being burned on the 
ground, afford a rich and valuable ma- 
nure of vegetable alkali, which more 
than any other manure promotes vege- 
tation 
23. Thofe parts of the country that 
have been depopulated by war or famine, 
are over-run with fhrubs, chiefly of the 
genus numofa, and the great ufe made by 
the natives of the bark of trees for me- 
dicinal purpofes, deftroys moft of the 
timber trees, by barking them. 
24. The price of prorifions is perfect- 
ly arbitrary. 
a5. The roads are tolerable in the dry 
feaion ; but as there are few made roads, 
in the wet feafon they are dificult and 
dangerous. 
26. Lhe natives in general dwell in 
houfes.of clay, the dampnefs and low- 
nefs ‘of which, renders them very un- 
wholefome abodes in the wet feafon. | 
27. here is the copy of a leafe, for 
promoting a new manufaéture, in my 
jaft publication. 
2%. Manufaétures and commerce mut : 
ever be fayourable to agriculture, in all 
countries. 
29. It would require a differtation to 
anfwer this queftion. , 
30. There are no focieties amonegft the 
natives, independant of facred dhows, and 
purfuits of amufement. : 
31. The people are acute and intelli- 
gent, as may be expected ina pure air 
and warm climate, where immemorial 
ufage has eftablithed a very fimple diet. 
32- Let the hufhandman reap the fruits 
of his labour, and every fuggeftion of 
improvement will be attended to in this, 
as in the moft cultivated ftate of fociety 
any where elfe. 7 
33» Sheep die in my garden (where 
the foil is clay) during the rains; and in 
cafe the liver is let fall on the ground, it 
breaks hke a mafs of clotted blood; 
whereas in the up-land gravelly ground 
they keep healthy all the year, 
Anfwered from India, 
69; 
34 Chiefly kali, and plants impreg . 
nated with mineral alkali. 
35. No means have been ufed, as thefe 
lands are flooded in the wet feafon, the 
fheep are neceflarily on the higher 
grounds. 
36. See anfwer 34. 
37- Thefe are wafte lands, excepting 
where they are employed for making 
falt, in the dry feafon, which is effeted 
by baling brackifh water, from the 
mouths of rivulets, to evaporate and 
ery ftalize. 
38.-The preateft obftacle to improve- 
ment, is the monied intereft being inthe 
line of renters, and dependants of reve- 
nue officers, whofe authority enables 
them to lend money, at a very high inte- 
-reft, to the ryot, and to eblige him to. 
give them the crop, at the loweft rate of 
the feafon ; which is kep* up for months, 
and afterwards fold at a high price; 
whereby an artificial fcarcity is in general 
produced, and frequently no grain al- 
lowed to be fold till what has thus been 
mortgaged is difpofed of ; and thus the 
ryotis deprived of the advantage of his 
labour, and all incitegent to induftry 
checked. To remedy fo great an evil 
may be difficult; but furely the ryor 
fhould be fupported in the means of cul- 
tivation, and the rents not demanded till 
the crop is realifed. 
meine 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
STR, i 
N common life, when a ftranger enters 
a large circle, and pronounces a compli- 
ment to one man or woman prefent, at 
the expence of all the reft, it is thought 
\but avery bungling fort of politenets ; 
and the perfon complimented wiill be, 
perhaps, the moft pazwed perfon in the 
room. 
This refleGtion arofe from reading in 
your laft Number a note dated from Brif- 
tol, /eeming to correct an error of fancy 
in 2 monody on Chatterton, written by 
Mr. Coleridge, but rea//y only to tell the 
vaft circle, the world, that no one elfe 
had written a monody “ worthy of the 
fubjeét.”’ 
Perhaps, the public will be far from 
joining iffue in this matter with B. from 
Briftol. Itis poffble, that there is not 
another man to be found, who will think 
as he feems to think. 
There were, at leaft, two monodies 
written on CHATTERTON, {uperior to 
the poem in queftion, in the three great 
requifites of FEELING, DESCRIPTION, 
and 
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