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MYSORE, CANARA, AND MALABAR.
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CHAPTER
XVII.
March 11,
Bidhdti river.
Strata.
March 12.
Appearance
of the coun-
try.
it in proper repair would require a thousand Pagodas. Its water
never was employed for the cultivation of rice, but was used only
to bring forward the young shoots of sugar-cane, which, till the
setting in of the rainy season, require irrigation.
About two-thirds of the way from Ydla-pura to Hosso-hully, I
crossed the Bidhati-holay, which goes north, and joins a river coining
from Supa to form the Sedasiva-ghur river. Its channel is wide, and
in the rainy season is probably full, but at present it contains very
little water.
The strata, laid bare by the river, are of the same nature with
those on the Ghats; but their dip toward the east is greater.
12th March.—I went three cosses to Sancada-gonda. Imme-
diately after setting out, I crossed a small branch of the Bidhdti,
which is called Baswa-holay ; and still farther on I crossed another,
named Gudialada-holay. The whole country is waste, and covered
with forest. The soil almost every where appears to be excellent,
with more low vallies, and more vestiges of former cultivation, than
on the route of yesterday. This valley land is here called Taggu,
and the rice growing on it requires five months to come to matu-
rity. The higher lands are called Mackey, and the highest arable
land is called Bisu. The rice cultivated there requires only three
months to come to maturity. Sancada-gonda contains three houses,
with some pretty rice lands in a good state. Not far from it are
two other villages, each containing four houses, with some rice-
land and gardens. These villages subsisted during all the trouble
of Tippoo's government, and belong to the Guru of all the Haiga
Brdhmans, who resides at Honawully Matam, in Soonda, pays the
land-tax, and lets his lands to some of his disciples.
13th March.—I went three cosses to the place which Europeans March is.
and Mussulmans call Soonda. In the vulgar language of Karnata
it is called Sudha, which is a corruption from Sudha-pura, the San-
skrit appellation. The road was very circuitous; as I went first
about south-west, and afterwards almost east. The hills are much
£11
CHAPTER
XVII.
March 11,
Bidhdti river.
Strata.
March 12.
Appearance
of the coun-
try.
it in proper repair would require a thousand Pagodas. Its water
never was employed for the cultivation of rice, but was used only
to bring forward the young shoots of sugar-cane, which, till the
setting in of the rainy season, require irrigation.
About two-thirds of the way from Ydla-pura to Hosso-hully, I
crossed the Bidhati-holay, which goes north, and joins a river coining
from Supa to form the Sedasiva-ghur river. Its channel is wide, and
in the rainy season is probably full, but at present it contains very
little water.
The strata, laid bare by the river, are of the same nature with
those on the Ghats; but their dip toward the east is greater.
12th March.—I went three cosses to Sancada-gonda. Imme-
diately after setting out, I crossed a small branch of the Bidhdti,
which is called Baswa-holay ; and still farther on I crossed another,
named Gudialada-holay. The whole country is waste, and covered
with forest. The soil almost every where appears to be excellent,
with more low vallies, and more vestiges of former cultivation, than
on the route of yesterday. This valley land is here called Taggu,
and the rice growing on it requires five months to come to matu-
rity. The higher lands are called Mackey, and the highest arable
land is called Bisu. The rice cultivated there requires only three
months to come to maturity. Sancada-gonda contains three houses,
with some pretty rice lands in a good state. Not far from it are
two other villages, each containing four houses, with some rice-
land and gardens. These villages subsisted during all the trouble
of Tippoo's government, and belong to the Guru of all the Haiga
Brdhmans, who resides at Honawully Matam, in Soonda, pays the
land-tax, and lets his lands to some of his disciples.
13th March.—I went three cosses to the place which Europeans March is.
and Mussulmans call Soonda. In the vulgar language of Karnata
it is called Sudha, which is a corruption from Sudha-pura, the San-
skrit appellation. The road was very circuitous; as I went first
about south-west, and afterwards almost east. The hills are much