[414] There are 11,386 acres of land under coffee cultivation in Wynaad, 7358 owned by Europeans, and 4028 by natives: of these 7224 are liable to assessment, that is, the coffee-trees are in bearing.
[415] Besides a jemmi fee on Government land, of eight annas an acre.
[416] Cleghorn's Forests and Gardens of Southern India, p. 16.
[417] Several species of Chinchonæ flourish at altitudes from 8000 to over 10,000 feet above the sea, and within the region of frequent frosts.
[418] Karsten.
[419] Smyth's Journey from Lima to Para, p. 115.
[420] Dr. A. Smith's Peru as It Is, ii. p. 57.
[421] Mr. Spruce's Report, p. 27.
[422] Called Cinchona excelsa by Dr. Roxburgh, but excluded from the list of Chinchonæ by Dr. Wallich, who gave the plant its present name.
[423] In the Mahabharata the five Pandus, who contended with the 100 Kurus or vices, were—Yudisthira, the personification of modesty; and his brothers Arjuna, or courage; Bhima, or strength; Nakal, or beauty; and Sahadeva, or harmony. The conversation between Arjuna and the incarnate deity Krishna, in the Bhagavat Gita, an episode in the Mahabharata, is perhaps the finest passage in the whole range of Sanscrit literature.