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  BOSE 
  : 
  GEOLOGY 
  OF 
  THE 
  LOWER 
  NARBADA 
  VALLEY. 
  

  

  38'). 
  The 
  ore 
  seems 
  to 
  belike 
  that 
  of 
  Chiktimodri, 
  

   and 
  is 
  also 
  in 
  the 
  metamorphics. 
  

   IX. 
  — 
  Kawant 
  (Chhota 
  Udepur 
  State) 
  — 
  

  

  (a) 
  Near 
  Mohan. 
  The 
  ore 
  (haematite) 
  here 
  occurs 
  in 
  the 
  

   Nimar 
  sandstone. 
  It 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  worked, 
  as 
  

   quantities 
  of 
  slags 
  lie 
  about 
  the 
  place. 
  It 
  occurs 
  as 
  a 
  

   bed 
  of 
  but 
  limited 
  extent. 
  

   As 
  to 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  the 
  working 
  of 
  these 
  mines, 
  there 
  is 
  but 
  little 
  

   handed 
  down 
  by 
  tradition, 
  and 
  still 
  less 
  is 
  preserved 
  on 
  record. 
  The 
  

   allusion 
  to 
  the 
  steel 
  mines 
  of 
  " 
  Indore 
  " 
  in 
  the 
  Ain-i-Akberi 
  has 
  been 
  refer- 
  

   red 
  to 
  in 
  the 
  Economic 
  Geology 
  of 
  India 
  1 
  as 
  proving 
  their 
  antiquity. 
  

   But 
  this 
  Indore 
  must 
  have 
  been 
  quite 
  a 
  different 
  place 
  from 
  the 
  modern 
  

   capital 
  of 
  Holkar, 
  being 
  mentioned 
  by 
  Abul 
  Fazl 
  as 
  occurring 
  in 
  the 
  

   subah 
  of 
  Berar, 
  2 
  and 
  not 
  in 
  that 
  of 
  Malwa. 
  

  

  The 
  well-known 
  city 
  of 
  that 
  name 
  was 
  quite 
  an 
  insignificant 
  village 
  

   when 
  the 
  Ain-i-Akberi 
  was 
  written 
  (end 
  of 
  the 
  sixteenth 
  century), 
  and 
  it 
  

   was 
  only 
  about 
  the 
  close 
  of 
  the 
  eighteenth 
  century 
  that 
  Ahalya 
  Bai, 
  pleased 
  

   with 
  its 
  site, 
  had 
  a 
  new 
  city 
  built 
  near 
  it, 
  and 
  ordered 
  the 
  head 
  office 
  of 
  the 
  

   district 
  to 
  be 
  removed 
  to 
  it 
  from 
  Kampel 
  (Malcolm's 
  C. 
  I., 
  Vol. 
  I, 
  page 
  

   11). 
  It 
  is 
  unlikely 
  that 
  the 
  iron 
  mines 
  near 
  Katkut 
  and 
  Barwai 
  should 
  

   have 
  been 
  called 
  after 
  an 
  unimportant 
  village 
  at 
  a 
  distance 
  of 
  35 
  miles. 
  

  

  What 
  trustworthy 
  historical 
  evidence 
  we 
  possess 
  does 
  not 
  date 
  back 
  

   any 
  earlier 
  than 
  1800. 
  In 
  that 
  year 
  we 
  have 
  it 
  on 
  the 
  authority 
  of 
  Sir 
  

   J. 
  Malcolm 
  and 
  Hamilton, 
  that 
  there 
  were 
  fifty 
  iron-smelting 
  furnaces 
  

   at 
  work 
  at 
  Katkut. 
  But 
  in 
  1820 
  the 
  number 
  was 
  reduced 
  to 
  two. 
  3 
  

  

  In 
  1818, 
  Captain 
  Dangerfield 
  noticed 
  at 
  Bag 
  three 
  smelting 
  furnaces 
  

   and 
  as 
  many 
  forges 
  employing 
  £4 
  blacksmiths. 
  The 
  iron 
  turned 
  out 
  is 
  

   described 
  by 
  him 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  indifferent 
  quality, 
  owing 
  chiefly 
  to 
  the 
  

   " 
  imperfect 
  fusion 
  and 
  forging 
  of 
  the 
  metal. 
  "* 
  The 
  furnaces 
  were 
  then 
  

  

  3 
  Loc. 
  cit, 
  p. 
  397. 
  

  

  2 
  Ain-i-Akberi 
  (Gladwin's 
  Translation), 
  Vol. 
  II, 
  p. 
  59. 
  

   8 
  "Central 
  India," 
  Vol. 
  II, 
  p. 
  500. 
  

  

  4 
  Trans. 
  Lit. 
  Soc, 
  Bomb., 
  Vol, 
  II, 
  p. 
  194. 
  

  

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