223:, they made formerly Cannon balls of which many are found lying all over the Hill." and at Nandydroog which was: "this morning cloathed with a white fog, when the rest of the country was Clear. The country hereabouts pretty well cultivated. Yesterday morning was with Capt. Mackenzie in the Fort, in which the houses, very few excepted, were empty. The garden in it that was formerly famous is entirely neglected and nothing in it worth attention but a few apple and coffee Trees." Dr. Benjamin Heyne died at Madras in 1819.
160:"A decided superiority must be given to useful plants over those which are merely recommended by their rarity or their beauty,... to collect with care all that is connected with the arts and manufacturers of this country, or that promises to be useful in our own; to give due attention to the timber employed in the various provinces of his route,... and to collect with particular diligence the valuable plants connected with his own immediate profession, i.e. medicine."
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An examination of so much of the tracts, historical and statistical, on India, & c. & c.& c., by
Benjamin Heyne, as Related to the account of Sumatra, with various notices on the subjects of cannibalism, slavery, &
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MacGregor, Arthur (2018). "European
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