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portion Is grounded on them, making an allowance for great 



rivers. 



Rivers and lakes (an eighth) - - - 3 



Deemed irrcclamiable and barren (a sixth) 4 

 Scite of towns and villages, ways, ponds, 



&c. (a twentv-iourth) - - - 1 



Free, lands (an eighth) - - - _ 3 



Liable for Revenue. 



In tillage (three-eighths) - - - 9 



Waste (a sixth) - - - * - 4 



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If a fourth of the area of Bengal be excluded, as before, 

 for tracts nearly or whollv waste; three-eighths of the re- 

 mainder give 45,703 square miles ; or, omitting Benares, 

 41,967 square miles, equal to 81,238,1 12 begahs of land 

 in tillage and liable for revenue ; and if half the free lauds 

 be cultivated, the whole tillage is 94,777,797 begahs, or 

 31,331,499 acres. 



In some districts, an inquiry undertaken in 1 790 ascer- 

 tained the quantity of land tenanted by near 70,000 culti- 

 vators ; and it gave an average of less than eighteen begahs 

 each in actual tillage : for, the cultivators paying rent for no 

 n)ore than their actual cultivation, the ascertainment com- 

 prehends no lays or fallows. 



At this proportion the whole tillage of 94,777,797 begahs 

 must be used by 3,265,432 tenants; and, adding for artifi- 

 cers and manufacturers, &c. at the proportion suggested 

 by the ascertainment of 80,914 husbandmen, and 22,324 



veral pergunnahs in circars, Sherecfabad, Madarura, &c. measured in 



17S6, and in circar Tajepoor, measured in 178S : 



Waste but reclaimabie, as well as forest and steril lands - 449,986 

 Ponds - - ... 4-1,805 



Free lands - - ... 298,^75 



Productive, including scite of buildings, - - 524.,909 



Begahs of 80 cubits square - I3!i4i975 



Pergunnahs in circar Tajepoor, measured in 17 

 Waste but reclaimabie 



Barren - . . - 



Ponds and roads, &c. 

 Vrvv lands 

 Cultiva td ... 



Total begahs 



Thtic mcaiJrcments are exclusive of rivers. 

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