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183 A JOURNEY FROM MADRAS THROUGH
CHAPTER acknowledges that the collector offered to advance money to
Ix- enable the farmers to carry on cultivation, and that none was
Oct. 11. accepted.
Tacavy, or The reason he assigns for this is, that the money advanced, or
money ad- Tacami, was to have been repaid immediately after cutting down the
vancted to as- u l J °
sist poor cul- crop : the farmers would therefore have been under the necessity
of selling at once the whole of their grain; and thus, by glutting
the market, they would have been great sufferers. A great many
of them, who have now been forced to work as labourers, would
have thankfully received Tacavy, to be repaid, by instalments, in
the course of two or three years. It must, however, be evident,
that such advances are extremely inconvenient to any government,
and perhaps could not be made without doing injustice to those who
paid the taxes necessary to raise the money advanced. Nor are
such advances in general attended with any national advantage;
they do not enable the people to cultivate one acre more, and are
an assistance only to some individuals, who, if they did not receive
advances to enable them to cultivate their own fields, must hire
themselves out to work on the fields of those who have stock.
They are, however, a favourite maxim of Indian policy; partly as
having a popular appearance of liberality, and partly as opening a
great held for corrupt partialities.
Sandal-wood. The hill producing sandal-Avood is three cosses distant from
Chica-Cavil. It is here called Punashy conda, which is its proper
name; that by which it is commonly called above the Ghats is
derived from Maha-deve'swara, a temple built on it. The Mussulman
who is employed to cut the sandal is said by the querulous Gauda
to use the neighbouring people very ill, and to give them no pay.
It appears to me, however, that the Gauda is not a man likely to
suffer any injustice without complaining, and he does not say that
he has ever in vain applied for redress.
Strata of the I*1 the Ghats above this place the most common strata are gneiss,
ememGhats. aQj a qUartz strongly impregnated with iron, Both are vertical,
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CHAPTER acknowledges that the collector offered to advance money to
Ix- enable the farmers to carry on cultivation, and that none was
Oct. 11. accepted.
Tacavy, or The reason he assigns for this is, that the money advanced, or
money ad- Tacami, was to have been repaid immediately after cutting down the
vancted to as- u l J °
sist poor cul- crop : the farmers would therefore have been under the necessity
of selling at once the whole of their grain; and thus, by glutting
the market, they would have been great sufferers. A great many
of them, who have now been forced to work as labourers, would
have thankfully received Tacavy, to be repaid, by instalments, in
the course of two or three years. It must, however, be evident,
that such advances are extremely inconvenient to any government,
and perhaps could not be made without doing injustice to those who
paid the taxes necessary to raise the money advanced. Nor are
such advances in general attended with any national advantage;
they do not enable the people to cultivate one acre more, and are
an assistance only to some individuals, who, if they did not receive
advances to enable them to cultivate their own fields, must hire
themselves out to work on the fields of those who have stock.
They are, however, a favourite maxim of Indian policy; partly as
having a popular appearance of liberality, and partly as opening a
great held for corrupt partialities.
Sandal-wood. The hill producing sandal-Avood is three cosses distant from
Chica-Cavil. It is here called Punashy conda, which is its proper
name; that by which it is commonly called above the Ghats is
derived from Maha-deve'swara, a temple built on it. The Mussulman
who is employed to cut the sandal is said by the querulous Gauda
to use the neighbouring people very ill, and to give them no pay.
It appears to me, however, that the Gauda is not a man likely to
suffer any injustice without complaining, and he does not say that
he has ever in vain applied for redress.
Strata of the I*1 the Ghats above this place the most common strata are gneiss,
ememGhats. aQj a qUartz strongly impregnated with iron, Both are vertical,
II