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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
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CHAPTER III.
FROM SERINGAPATAM TO BANGALORE.
'AVING finished my business at Scringapatam, on the 6th of CHAPTER
June 1800, I left it early in the morning, and assembled my k^^J^j
people at a small village, named Gaynangur, which is situated among June 6.
the hills north from the river Cccvery. The fields that are at present Appearance
occupied having now been all ploughed, I observe that a large ° '"
proportion of the arable land is left waste.
At Gaynangur there is much talc; but the lamina? are not large Minerals,
enough to serve for glass. It occupies the rents and small veins in
an extensive chain of quartz, which is in a state of decomposition,
and of which some parts are red, and some white. By digging
deep, it is probable that larger pieces of the talc might be found.
The inhabitants are wonderfully ignorant of the mineral produc-
tions of their country; for they did not know the limestone nodules,
so common in this place, when shown to them in their own fields.
All their lime comes from the city.
7th June.—I went to Mundium. Not above one third of the Mundium.
arable land appears to be now occupied.
The flight of locusts that I saw when I was here last (p. 57), Locusts,
settled at a village to the eastward, and ate up all the young Jola.
The rice land here is watered entirely from tanks or reservoirs; Watered
and the cultivation is never commenced till there be a sufficiency an '
of water in the tank to ensure the crop. When the rains set in early,
and fill the tank timely, the farmers have yearly two crops; but
when the early part of the season is dry, they take a Hainu crop of
JVuirEllu, Udu, Hessaru, or Carlay ; and afterwards, when the tank
is filled, plough for a crop of Cam rice.
Vol. I. T
• Hi
Sask
vey.
MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
137
CHAPTER III.
FROM SERINGAPATAM TO BANGALORE.
'AVING finished my business at Scringapatam, on the 6th of CHAPTER
June 1800, I left it early in the morning, and assembled my k^^J^j
people at a small village, named Gaynangur, which is situated among June 6.
the hills north from the river Cccvery. The fields that are at present Appearance
occupied having now been all ploughed, I observe that a large ° '"
proportion of the arable land is left waste.
At Gaynangur there is much talc; but the lamina? are not large Minerals,
enough to serve for glass. It occupies the rents and small veins in
an extensive chain of quartz, which is in a state of decomposition,
and of which some parts are red, and some white. By digging
deep, it is probable that larger pieces of the talc might be found.
The inhabitants are wonderfully ignorant of the mineral produc-
tions of their country; for they did not know the limestone nodules,
so common in this place, when shown to them in their own fields.
All their lime comes from the city.
7th June.—I went to Mundium. Not above one third of the Mundium.
arable land appears to be now occupied.
The flight of locusts that I saw when I was here last (p. 57), Locusts,
settled at a village to the eastward, and ate up all the young Jola.
The rice land here is watered entirely from tanks or reservoirs; Watered
and the cultivation is never commenced till there be a sufficiency an '
of water in the tank to ensure the crop. When the rains set in early,
and fill the tank timely, the farmers have yearly two crops; but
when the early part of the season is dry, they take a Hainu crop of
JVuirEllu, Udu, Hessaru, or Carlay ; and afterwards, when the tank
is filled, plough for a crop of Cam rice.
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