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INTRODUCTION.
at the same time will in some measure supply the want of
method, in which I am sorry that the Work is so deficient.
The following Instructions, which I received from the Governor
General, before I commenced my Journey, will sufficiently ex-
plain the views which that distinguished Nobleman had in
employing me.
Copvof the Governor General's Instructions, dated Fort William,
54th February 1800.
" Your enquiries are to extend throughout the dominions of
the present Raja of Mysore, and the country acquired by the
Company, in the late war, from the Sultan, as well as to that
part of Malabar which the Company annexed to their own ter-
ritories in the former war under Marquis Cornwallis."
" The first great and essential object of your attention should
be, the Agriculture of the Country; under which head, your en-
quiries should include and tend to ascertain the following points
with as much accuracy as local circumstances will admit."
Esculent Vegetables.
" The different kinds cultivated by the farmers and natives in
general, for sale or common use; the modes of cultivation
adopted for each kind, and the implements of husbandry used
in them; the seasons when they are sown and gathered; the
manures used for the soil; and the means adopted for watering
their grounds ; and as the effecting this last point, in a cheap and
easy manner, is an essential object to the common farmers in this
country (Bengal), it would be eligible to have either models or
drawings made of any description of machinery which may not
have been seen by you in these parts of India, and which may
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INTRODUCTION.
at the same time will in some measure supply the want of
method, in which I am sorry that the Work is so deficient.
The following Instructions, which I received from the Governor
General, before I commenced my Journey, will sufficiently ex-
plain the views which that distinguished Nobleman had in
employing me.
Copvof the Governor General's Instructions, dated Fort William,
54th February 1800.
" Your enquiries are to extend throughout the dominions of
the present Raja of Mysore, and the country acquired by the
Company, in the late war, from the Sultan, as well as to that
part of Malabar which the Company annexed to their own ter-
ritories in the former war under Marquis Cornwallis."
" The first great and essential object of your attention should
be, the Agriculture of the Country; under which head, your en-
quiries should include and tend to ascertain the following points
with as much accuracy as local circumstances will admit."
Esculent Vegetables.
" The different kinds cultivated by the farmers and natives in
general, for sale or common use; the modes of cultivation
adopted for each kind, and the implements of husbandry used
in them; the seasons when they are sown and gathered; the
manures used for the soil; and the means adopted for watering
their grounds ; and as the effecting this last point, in a cheap and
easy manner, is an essential object to the common farmers in this
country (Bengal), it would be eligible to have either models or
drawings made of any description of machinery which may not
have been seen by you in these parts of India, and which may