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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR, N 87
CHAPTER VIII.
JOURNEY THROUGH THE PART OF KARNATA SOUTH fcROM THE
1
CAVERY.
N the 5th of September, I went one coss to Pal-hully. Owing to CHAPTER
some mistake, my baggage missed the way; and, after having VIII.
wandered the whole day, arrived in the evening with the cattle Sept. 5.
so fatigued, that on the day following it was impossible to move.
6th September.—Pal-hully formerly contained a thousand houses ; Sept. 6.
but during the siege of Seringapatam, as it was in the immediate rear a~ " ^*
of the camp of Genera] Harris, it was entirely destroyed. A hundred
houses have been rebuilt, and the inhabitants are daily returning.
It is situated on the bank of the lower of the two canals that are Canals for ir-
forced by dams from the Cavery to water the district called Malm- r,StU10n*
sura Ashta-gram, This canal "now contains a fine stream, like a
small river. It never becomes entirely dry, and enables the farmer,
even in the dry season, to have a crop of rice on part of his fields.
Here were formerly many palm-gardens; but the army, in order state of the
to procure fire-wood, and materials for the trenches, destroyed the j^ta-Z^n
whole. They have now been planted again. In this district a good district.
deal of sugar-cane is raised; and some persons have lately come
here to make sugar. Formerly all the juice was made into Jagory.
The present stock is sufficient to cultivate the greater part of the
watered-land, but more than half of the dry field is waste..
Although the river abounds with fish, very ftw are caught by Fish.
the natives; for that kind of food is not a favourite one with the
people of Mysore.
About the villages swine are now beginning to accumulate, as a Swine,.
CHAPTER VIII.
JOURNEY THROUGH THE PART OF KARNATA SOUTH fcROM THE
1
CAVERY.
N the 5th of September, I went one coss to Pal-hully. Owing to CHAPTER
some mistake, my baggage missed the way; and, after having VIII.
wandered the whole day, arrived in the evening with the cattle Sept. 5.
so fatigued, that on the day following it was impossible to move.
6th September.—Pal-hully formerly contained a thousand houses ; Sept. 6.
but during the siege of Seringapatam, as it was in the immediate rear a~ " ^*
of the camp of Genera] Harris, it was entirely destroyed. A hundred
houses have been rebuilt, and the inhabitants are daily returning.
It is situated on the bank of the lower of the two canals that are Canals for ir-
forced by dams from the Cavery to water the district called Malm- r,StU10n*
sura Ashta-gram, This canal "now contains a fine stream, like a
small river. It never becomes entirely dry, and enables the farmer,
even in the dry season, to have a crop of rice on part of his fields.
Here were formerly many palm-gardens; but the army, in order state of the
to procure fire-wood, and materials for the trenches, destroyed the j^ta-Z^n
whole. They have now been planted again. In this district a good district.
deal of sugar-cane is raised; and some persons have lately come
here to make sugar. Formerly all the juice was made into Jagory.
The present stock is sufficient to cultivate the greater part of the
watered-land, but more than half of the dry field is waste..
Although the river abounds with fish, very ftw are caught by Fish.
the natives; for that kind of food is not a favourite one with the
people of Mysore.
About the villages swine are now beginning to accumulate, as a Swine,.