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Credit: A treatise on relapsing or famine fever / by R.T. Lyons. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![boats tlirougliout the year. The division of Samn was well cultivated, and jungle formed a very inconsiderable portion of it. In the division of Chumparun, not more than one third was under cultivation, the rest being covered with extensive forests containing every species of tree com- mon in this country, and abounded with saul, sissoo, toon, mohow, semu], etc. In Sircar Chumparun there were also large uncultivated tracts of country; the inhabitants of it were constantly changing every two or three years, owing, it is said, to the unhealthiness of the place. This part of the country was described by Hamilton, as having suffered severely during the great famine in 1770, when almost half the inhabitants were supposed to have perished. The nature of the soil is exceedingly varied, and its vegetable productions are consequently numerous; that it is not inauspicious is well known. The general soil is a mixture of fine mould and sand. The lowlands in the vicinity of the nullahs are fertilized by alluvial deposit, and yield crops of wheat and barley once in the year. The high- lands consist of a rich loamy soil, calculated for sugar-cane. These lands (except where sugar-cane is planted) are fre- quently cropped twice and three times a year. In Chum- parun the soil is alluvial, and particularly favourable for the production of indigo. The indigo factories were very numerous in this part of the district, and in general thriv- ing. 1^0 manure of any description was applied to the soil. Three crops, as already stated, were reaped in the year: a summer crop of millet, maize, and different kinds of esculent plants; an autumnal crop, consisting of Indian corn, kadoo, etc. ; and a spring crop of wheat, barley, peas, grain, and various other grains of the leguminous kind. Other produce was poppy, cotton, hemp, and oil seeds, such as the castor, mustard, linseed, teel, and poppy seeds. Vegetation was rapid, and the produce sufficiently abund- ant for home consumption and for large exportations of wheat, barley, cotton, hemp, and tobacco, chiefly for the markets of the Lower Provinces. Agricultural pursuits formed the chief occupations of the inhabitants of the dis- trict, and they were allowed by the best judges to be excel- lent cultivators. In the gardens, every kind of vegetable](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21987403_0266.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
