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The wool is naturally finner, and the produce likewise by far greater, the wool is apropriated for a particular sort of cloth, called by the inhabitants Paging. the finnest that is woven in the city of Lymree.
The time of watering the plantation is exactly so observed as in the other districts, and these fields which the heigh spring monthly overflow are considered the best for this species.
As the seeds tends easily to corruption by being long under water, I would therefore recommend to the planters, that the lower grounds are not occupied with it till late in the rainy season, for they will have to do in the end of the rains their former labour over again, when it will be perhaps as the season differs almost every year, too late to resow, for I have observed whole districts destroyed by precipited sowing and long inundation
For manure, they have in this, and in the Ahmood Purgunah no occasion, for as the Rivers get impregate by the heavy falls of rain in the inland countrys, the various egredient, and fish which are brought by them, sufficiently enrich the soil to rise the vegetation, and as it often happens that there is no rain in the country; this Purgunah has always, by the authentic account I had from the Rajahs of Dolea, and Lymree: both a fine crop of rice, and cotton.
As there is not likely such a mixture in the soil of Zeolyte, and other calcarious particles, in the West Indies, in consequence, by what I have seen of the growth, and quality of this cotton, I judge the best soil would be, for it, that of a light yellow clay.
N. 4. The yellow Nankin cotton from a Gentoo Priest.
By the account I had from the Fockier, the Joynegase country where this yellow cotton is cultivated: is as level as the Purgunah of Lymree, and the soil of these plantations of a sandy nature, he told me that the cotton seeds is sown in the beginning of the rains at the distance of 3 feet, and that Bagery is commonly intersown with it; that the shrub bears a purple flower; and that the inhabitants begin to gather in the wool in March.