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IN THE BURMHAN EMPIRE.
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consideration of this physical and moral necessity
ought, perhaps, to vindicate religious legislators from
the reproaches too liberally bestowed on them, for
sanctioning relaxation. Be that as it may, I think
it is sufficiently apparent that the article of wages
is also exaggerated, and that 500 viss must only
be considered as the amount produce of working-
days, and not an average for every day in the
year. The labour of the miners, as I have ob-
served above, is altogether distinct from the oil-
drawers, and their pay proportioned to their hard-
ships, and the risks they endure. Assuming
therefore as data, the acknowledged profit of 1,000
ticals per annum for each well, which Ave can
hardly suppose exaggerated, as it would expose
the proprietors to an additional tax, and the
common wages of precarious employment in the
country, that is one month with another, including
holidays, the year round, four and a quarter ticals
per month as the pay of the oil-drawers, which
includes the two extremes of the question, it will
make the average produce of each well per diem,
300 viss, or 109,500 viss per annum, equal to
395,6751bs. avoirdupois, or 173 tons 9551bs. ; or
in liquid measure 793 hogsheads of sixty-three
gallons each; and, as there are 520 wells regis-
tered by government, the gross amount produce
of the whole per annum, will be 56,910 viss, or
9*2,781 tons, l,5601bs., or 112,300 hogsheads:
43
consideration of this physical and moral necessity
ought, perhaps, to vindicate religious legislators from
the reproaches too liberally bestowed on them, for
sanctioning relaxation. Be that as it may, I think
it is sufficiently apparent that the article of wages
is also exaggerated, and that 500 viss must only
be considered as the amount produce of working-
days, and not an average for every day in the
year. The labour of the miners, as I have ob-
served above, is altogether distinct from the oil-
drawers, and their pay proportioned to their hard-
ships, and the risks they endure. Assuming
therefore as data, the acknowledged profit of 1,000
ticals per annum for each well, which Ave can
hardly suppose exaggerated, as it would expose
the proprietors to an additional tax, and the
common wages of precarious employment in the
country, that is one month with another, including
holidays, the year round, four and a quarter ticals
per month as the pay of the oil-drawers, which
includes the two extremes of the question, it will
make the average produce of each well per diem,
300 viss, or 109,500 viss per annum, equal to
395,6751bs. avoirdupois, or 173 tons 9551bs. ; or
in liquid measure 793 hogsheads of sixty-three
gallons each; and, as there are 520 wells regis-
tered by government, the gross amount produce
of the whole per annum, will be 56,910 viss, or
9*2,781 tons, l,5601bs., or 112,300 hogsheads: