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was returned to me, and one town and three villages in military 
or feudal tenure; but the villages in free gift (Kenam) are 
included in the Doomaleh villages. 
The chief town is Ahmednuggur, with a population of 
17,838 souls in 1822: men 5953, boys 3350, total males 9303 ; 
women 5976, girls 2559, total 8535. The other chief towns 
are Kurdeh, Nasseek, Chandore, Sungumnair, Parnair, &c. ; 
but their population I cannot state, as the total amount of the 
population of pergunnahs only was sent to me by. the col- 
lector*. The most populous pergunnah would appear to be 
Nasseek, containing 71,581 inhabitants. The least populous 
pergunnah was Soagaon, containing only 9400 inhabitants. 
Htivers.—The rivers running, through the collectorate are 
formed by numerous streams originating in the Ghats and 
Chandore range,—such as the Peera, the Mool, the Doornah, 
and the Gooee, which converge to that noble stream the 
Godavery, which also has its rise in this collectorate, near 
Trimbuck, and flows to the eastward to the Bay of Bengal. 
The Seena is the only river of consequence which does not 
originate in the Ghats. - It has its course at the edge of the 
plateau on which the city of Ahmednuggur stands, about ten 
miles north of the city, and flows in a S.S.E. direction into 
the Beema. 
There are several remarkable hill forts in the western part 
of the collectorate, such as Trimbuck, &c. Ahmednuggur 
_was once the capital of the Ahmed Shahee dynasty of kings. 
_ Khandesh or Candeish Collectorate.—The area of the pro- 
_ vince or collectorate of Candeish, deduced from a map in the 
_ Deputy Surveyor General’s Office, including tracts belonging 
_ to foreign states and to Jagheerdars, is 12,527 square miles. 
_ Itis bounded on the north by the Sautpoora mountains; on 
the east by the. province of Berar, belonging to the Nizam ; 
on the south by the Indyadree range of mountains, which 
_ separate it from Ahmednuggur; and, on the west, by Dang 
_ and Raj Peeplee, which bring it into contact with Goojrat. 
_ It is literally a Khind or Khund, a great gap between ranges 
_ of mountains, whence its name of Khandesh or Candeish. 
_ Some of the northern and western parts are little better than a 
_ jungle, and the whole province is miserably depopulated. The 
_ populated part of the collectorate belonging to the British, 
_ derived from the returns of the lands of 1982 populated villages, 
' 
* The population returns forwarded by me not having been filled up, in 
» consequence of a census of the population having been made by the collector 
__ himself within three years preceding. 
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