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roots of each water is convey by feparate canals : but the whole is kept in a veryflovenly condition. More extenfive gardens might be formed here, but the expence orwatering them would be confiderable.

Since leaving Madras, I have found the weather very hot and di y. The thermo-meter at noon m my tents, which are well condructed for keeping out the heat, hasbeen from 95 0 to 98°. In a houfe it would probably have been two or three degreeslower. The wind has generally been drong ; but so arid, and hot, as not to mitigatethe effects of the fun, or cool the burning atmofphere.

I am gravely informed by my interpreter, a Brahman, that he has relations, wholive by performing a variety of wonderful feats. Among others, they can make aMango flone, in the courfe of four hours, fhoot out a fmall tree a foot high. Hemaintains, that this is not a deception, but a real art, the manner of doing which isas follows : Take of the kernels of a fhrab which is a fpecies of Vantanea, a con-venient quantity, and grind them between two {tones for feven days and feven nights,without ceaftng. Then place a fword upright, with its point in a cup. Rub the pulpof the kernel on the blade of the fword, expofed to the fun, and an oil will run downinto the cup. Put the oil in a bottle to be preferved for ufe. In order to performthe experiment, take a ripe Mango flone, rub it over with the oil, and place it in apot of earth properly watered. The young fhoot will be immediately formed ; butdies foon, that is, whenever it has exhaufted the nourifhment contained in thekernel. I have feen the experiment performed at Calcutta ; and know that it isa mere deception.

3d May.—I went to Naiekan Eray, by the Pedda Naikana Durga Pafs. After-eroding the firfl hill by a very bad road, I defeended into a narrow valley, runningnorth and fouth, and containing two channels, in one of which was a fmall quantityof clear running water. Thefe two currents uniting, and having joined the ftreamsfrom Satghadam fall into the Palar near Amboor. In this valley was encamped anofficer, with many pioneers, employed in making a road up the Ghats, from Amboorto Pedda Naikana Durga. The new road is very well formed ; but for about half amile is exceedingly deep, fo as to render a noble work of comparatively little value.The mountains of the Ghats have not quite fo barren an afpect as thofe to the call;and contain many trees, fome of which are fit for timber.

Specimens of the following were brought to me, as being the mod ufeful trees onthe Ghats of this place. The names are Telinga.

1. Nara Vaypa, deferibed by Dr. Roxburgh as a fpecies of Copaifera. A black,hard timber, taking a good polifh.

2. Yegu, which in my manuferipts I call Pterocarpus ? Vaynga.—Gives fmall planksfor doors, &c.

3. Naro, Premna tomentofa Willd. — Ufed for beams and pods in the huts ofthe natives.

4. Neruddy. — Serves for both planks and beams.

5. Muddi.—The wheels of the immenfe chariots of the gods are made fromthis tree.

6. Topidi, Ulmus integrifolia, Roxb. — Serves for door-frames, and fimilar ufes.

7. Tayca, Tectona Robuda.—In this neighbourhood about a hundred full grown■trees might be procured.

8. Chigry, a Mimofa, which I call Tuggula.—Said to be a black, heavy,drong timber.

9. Telia Maliki, which I call Bilitalium Farinofum. — A white wood ufed forE pods in huts.

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xo. Wudaga.