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factor in the determination of the preliminaries of the project. So far 

 as my personal experience goes, Palamow is the healthiest part of Chutia 

 Nagpur. The amount of sickness in my camp was most conspicuously 

 less than it has been in other parts of the division. 



But the very different amount of sickness which I witnessed and 

 participated in two successive seasons in Sirguja warns me from attempt- 

 ing to generalise on the personal experience of but one season in 

 Palamow. The balance of testimony, however, seems to indicate that 

 the healthiness of Palamow is above the average of similar hilly 

 districts. The highland pats might be advantageously used as local 

 sanitaria. 



Note. — It may, perhaps, be thought by some readers that the topics discussed in this mis- 

 cellaneous chapter are hardly suitable to the pages of a geological report. But their 

 connection with the question of the development of the mineral resources is not likely to be 

 denied, and no other justification for their appearance here is, perhaps, necessary. There are 

 many other subjects connected with the natural productions, t^e history and the antiqui- 

 ties and the ethnology which might be dwelt on at some length, but without the above 

 justification. The introduction of all such subjects, therefore, is scrupulously omitted, and 

 the information on the first- mentioned is conveyed in as few and as brief paragraphs as 

 is consistent with a reasonable amount of clearness. 



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