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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 137
Among the natives, however, similar departures from the truth are chapter
common, vin-
Purnea has lately repaired a canal which comes from the dam at Sept. 20.
Hanagodu, and which in the rainy season conveys the superfluous n,SdlG
water into a reservoir, where it is preserved for cultivating a con-
siderable portion of rice-land in the dry weather. By similar means
much water, that is now lost from the Canary, might be pre-
served.
We have now again got into a dry soil, with short herbage in- Soil,
termixed with bushes of the Cassia auriculata: but the fields have
a verdure unknown to the eastward, and Car' Ragy is the common
crop.
All the high grounds that I have seen south from the Cavery, as Fences,
well as those in many places north from that river, have evidently
been once fenced with quickset hedges. Some of these at this
place are very fine; and the natives, being sensible of the advan-
tage of shelter in preserving a moisture in their fields, have allowed
the Tirucalli to grow twenty feet high. When from its height it has
become too open at the roots, they plant in the openings the Euphor-
bium antiquorum, which grows well under the shade of the other;
and both united make a good and a very beautiful, fence. The
hedges of the country in general, even where they are kept up as
fences, are in a very slovenly condition, and are ruined by being
overgrown with the Convolvulus, and other rank climbing plants.
Humpa-pura is a miserable open village. A little east from it is Monument
erected a stone, containing some small figures in bas-relief, which °.f a£reat
. . . . ' victory.
are much defaced. Concerning this the ti'adition is as follows:
Canterua, Rdya of Mysore, having invaded Coorg with a large army,
was entirely defeated, and pursued this length by the Vir' Rdya.
In the flight there perished three hundred and sixty of the Mysore
nobles, each of whom had the privilege of using a palanquin. The
conqueror having bestowed great Dharma, that is to say, having
thrown away much money on religious mendicants, erected this
Vol. IL T
MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR. 137
Among the natives, however, similar departures from the truth are chapter
common, vin-
Purnea has lately repaired a canal which comes from the dam at Sept. 20.
Hanagodu, and which in the rainy season conveys the superfluous n,SdlG
water into a reservoir, where it is preserved for cultivating a con-
siderable portion of rice-land in the dry weather. By similar means
much water, that is now lost from the Canary, might be pre-
served.
We have now again got into a dry soil, with short herbage in- Soil,
termixed with bushes of the Cassia auriculata: but the fields have
a verdure unknown to the eastward, and Car' Ragy is the common
crop.
All the high grounds that I have seen south from the Cavery, as Fences,
well as those in many places north from that river, have evidently
been once fenced with quickset hedges. Some of these at this
place are very fine; and the natives, being sensible of the advan-
tage of shelter in preserving a moisture in their fields, have allowed
the Tirucalli to grow twenty feet high. When from its height it has
become too open at the roots, they plant in the openings the Euphor-
bium antiquorum, which grows well under the shade of the other;
and both united make a good and a very beautiful, fence. The
hedges of the country in general, even where they are kept up as
fences, are in a very slovenly condition, and are ruined by being
overgrown with the Convolvulus, and other rank climbing plants.
Humpa-pura is a miserable open village. A little east from it is Monument
erected a stone, containing some small figures in bas-relief, which °.f a£reat
. . . . ' victory.
are much defaced. Concerning this the ti'adition is as follows:
Canterua, Rdya of Mysore, having invaded Coorg with a large army,
was entirely defeated, and pursued this length by the Vir' Rdya.
In the flight there perished three hundred and sixty of the Mysore
nobles, each of whom had the privilege of using a palanquin. The
conqueror having bestowed great Dharma, that is to say, having
thrown away much money on religious mendicants, erected this
Vol. IL T