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the washermen who breed them. Two men take charge of twelve loaded affes.Thefe creatures get nothing to eat but what they can pick up by the fides of theroad; Their coft is from 14 to two pagodas, or from 10s. old. to 13s. 5id.
The bullocks employed by thefe people are treated much in the fame manner as theaffes; but each carries from 60 to 80 feers of grain, or from 2 ,°- 0 s 0 - bufhels to 2 f \y, Tbulhels. Merchants, who deal in betel-nut, pepper, &c. have fometimes had recourfeto this poor kind of conveyance ; but it is very rarely done, the flownefs with whichthefe cattle travel rendering the dealer liable to fuffer great lofs from fluctuationsin the markets.
This is the information collected from all the molt refpectable merchants of the-place. According to the cuftom-houfe accompts the imports are fait; fugar-candycocoa-nuts ; betel-nut; pepper ; cut, or terra japonica ; ginger ; capili, patunga root,and muddi dyes; wax ; lac ; fteel; falfe gilded paper; indigo ; fandal-wood ; fait-petre; fulphur; yellow arfenic ; cinnabar; brafs and copper, wrought and unwrought;lead ; zinc ; paper; dates; cafturi, a kind of turmeric ; benjamin; fompa, one of thecarminative feeds; afafcetida; camphor; cardamoms; cloves; nutmegs; mace; go-pichandana, a clay ufed by the Brahmans for making their marks;' rudrakfhi, afruit ufed by the Brahmans for their beads ; almonds; opium ; golai, a kind of opiumfanacallu, the done ufed for powdering fandal; balapum, orpot-ftone; allum ; fivemedicinal falts, from Madras; bang; oil of fefamum ; ghee; honey; oil of thenrelia azadarichta; cocoa-nut oil ; Carnatic tobacco ; Madras cloths, cotton, filk,and woollen; raw filk ; red and white cotton thread ; carpets ; Thibet cow tails ; cof-fumba flowers ; Burrahunpour cloths ; Balahari cloths; Cafhemire goods brought byGoffais, who travel with horfes and camels; the goods are, mulk, faffron, carpets,and lhawls ; mutabi, or gold cloth of Hyder-abad ; cumlies, or country blankets fromChatrakal and Balahari; English blankets, or hutfu cumlies ; paints ; goats, andflteep from Penu-conda ; hard-ware; palmira; and date jagories; molaffes ; myro-balans ; wheat from Balahari and Penu-conda; bendes the produce of the neighboursihg country.
The trade of the country not having been yet opened a year flnce the inhabitantshad deferted the place, no proper eflimate can be formed of the quantity of exportsand imports; but it is on the increafe every month, and is now about one fourth ofthe quantity that was exported arid imported in the molt flourilhing time of Hyder’sgovernment. The fon of the perfon who had then charge of the cuftom-houfe, datesthe following particulars of the trade at that period. In one year there were imported1500 bullock-loads of cotton wool; 50 bullock-loads of cotton thread; 230 bullock-loads of raw filk; 7000 bullock-loads of fait; foreign goods from Madras 300bullock-loads. At the fame time were exported of betel-nut 400a bullock-loads, andof pepper 400 bullock-loads.
Although, in common reckoning, the day begins at fun-rife, yet this is by nomeans the cafe in the Chandramanam almanac. Some days laft only a few hours,and others continue for almoft double the natural length; fo that no one, withoutconfulting the panchanga, or almanac-keeper, knows when he is to perform the cere-monies of religion. What increafes the difficulty is, that fome days are doubled, andfome days altogether omitted, in order to bring fome feafts, celebrated on certaindays of the month, to happen at a proper time of the-moon, and alfo in order to cutoff fix fuperfluous days, which twelve months of thirty days would give more than,a year of twelve lunations. Every thirtieth month one intercalary moon is added, inorder to remove the difterence between the lunar and folar years. As. the former is