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resulted from the calculations, giving the Poona collectorate an 
area of 7878 square miles. Poona has the greatest number of 
_ cultivators? excepting Dharwar ; and this is to be attributed, not 
to the extended cultivation, but to the Mawul, or hilly tracts, 
occupying a great deal of the collectorate, where the farmers are 
_ multiplied and the individual agricultural operations of very li- 
_ mited extent. In the whole Turruff of Mhurkhoreh the farms 
average only 13 beegahs each; but in the eastern and south- 
eastern parts of the collectorate they have the same average as is 
given to Ahmednuggur. From the above facts the farms might 
be expected to average a very low rent, as is found to be the case. 
The following estimate justifies the inference that the land 
assessments are comparatively not very onerous. 
In the Desh, or Table Land, the farms average. . 45 beegahs. 
Tn the Mawuls, or hilly tracts. .......... 13 do. 
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Mean average of farms... . 29 beegahs. 
In 1827-28 there were 52,668 cultivators, which multiplied 
by 29, the average number of beegahs to each farmer, will give 
1,527,372 beegahs of land under cultivation; and as the land 
revenue of 1827-28 amounted to 1,516,323 rupees, 37 reas; 
the assessments would only be at the rate of 3 qr. 97 reas per 
beegah,° including garden land and extras. There are still 
however some marked features which are not satisfactory: the 
_ villages average a greater revenue (excluding the city of Poona) 
_ than in the other collectorates, although the average village po- 
_ pulation is less for that part of the Poona collectorate, whence 
_ population returns have been received. 
_ The 574 villages of the sub-collectorate of Sholapoor average 
_ 1272 rupees, 1 qr. 12 reas each,‘ including customs. The magni- 
_ tude of the average of the remaining villages may be attributed to 
_ the great amount of the customs ;° but deducting a suitable pro- 
_ portion of the customs! for the inhabitants of the city of Poona, 
and the whole of the revenue of the city, Sahyer,» land,i and 
_Abkauree,* and mint!; villages (always excluding the four 
- talooks of Sholapoor) still average 1241 rupees, 1 qr. 76 reas 
© Rupees 1,516,323 
* 52,668,  » 94 acres. eet 1,527,872 
4 Revenue of sub-collectorate of Sholapoor 730,289 rupees, 1 qr. 93 reas. 
=3 qr. 97 reas per beegah. 
_ © 215,361 rupees, 2 qr. 37% reas. f 61,756 rupees, 1 qr. 63 reas. 
® 81,515 inhabitants, 4 56,202 rupees, 3 qr. 50 reas. 
+ 27,981 rupees, 814 reas. k 12,000 rupees. 1 3301 rupees. 
| vou. vi. 1837, . x 
