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REGISTER OF WEATHER AT THE MADAWELLATENNE ESTATE

FOR SEPTEMBER 1840.

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The operatioins of the season, viz.planting and forming nurseries proceeded but slowly until the middle of the month, when gentle showers enabled them to proceed rapidly; about 200 acres being planted in this vicinity; the fall of rain this month however is far below that of the same period last year being only 6 inches 68 cents; many Rice fields even within the range of the hills being still uncultivated, owing to the scanty supply of rain. The Coffee planted, does not however to feel the short supply, the Plants which have fairly taken root growing rapidly, and being of very good color, advantage has been taken of the dry days to clear the ground of the constant succession of weeds with which the clearings are encumbered; it is the opinion of the natives that the October rains

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will prove very abundant owing to the very light weather of the whole of the monsoon-Prevailing winds W. S. W. with flaws occasionally from the

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KOBBE GALLA.

P. S.-Plentiful rains have been falling in and about Kandy for the last 6 or 8 days, thus making up, in some degree, for the very unusually dry Monsoon; such dry and unfavorable weather has not been known for some years. If the rains now hold on, the season for Coffee planting will after all prove about an average one, and all fears of a short Rice crop will turn out groundless.-The Cholera in Kandy is much abated, very few cases having occurred since the late wet weather and hopes are entertained that by this time it will have entirely disappeared.

October 15th, 1840.

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REMARKS,

The weather generally speaking, has been exceedingly favorable to the planter in this quarter: I ima gine that very few in any part of the Kandian District, could have wished for a finer season than we have had on this range of mountains. The rains seem now fairly set in and as may be supposed every advantage is taken of them to plant out newly cleared land, supply deficiencies from failures and make nurseries,

The rapid growth of weeds during this weather renders the operation of cleaning a laborious one, but it is too important to be neglected.

The young plants placed out in the early part of the rains are looking as well as could possibly be wished. In some parts a few berries are being gathered and in a week or ten days the whole of the crops in this part will be ripened,

The health of this estate stil continues very good, neither fever nor cholera having appeared.

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METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL KEPT ON THE HUNASGIRIA RANGE OF MOUNTAINS, AT AN ELEVATION OF NEARLY 3,000 FEET.

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ADDISON,-who led the way, and has never been excelled, in the criticism of Milton's Paradise Lost,-fully considered that truly divine Poem under the four heads of fable, character, sentiments, and language. To keep out of the track of this elegant critic, and of his great master, Aristotle, we may remark that there is a faculty of mind, exercised by our Milton, more or less in all his compositions both in prose and verse, in which he is greatly superior to Homer himself. This is that lofty reasoning imagina tion,

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