510 Report on the Turan Mall Hill, [No. 6. 



Mundlasir, the max. was, . . 104°. 



Ditto mean 93.5 



Ditto minimum . . 83. 



Turun Mall, the max. was, 85.47 



Ditto.... mean 77-78 



Ditto.... minimum .. 70.14 



thus showing a difference of more than 18| degrees in favor of the 

 latter. Mundlasir is considered to be in general about 7 degrees higher 

 in temperature than Mhow and Indore in Malwa. 



In conclusion I would remark that people desirous of making a trial 

 of the climate of Turan Mall would do wisely, if they made arrange- 

 ments for supplies for themselves and retainers to be procured from 

 time to time on the Nimar side at Chiculda and Barwani and on the 

 Candesh at Sydah (6 miles north of the Tapti) and the adjoining 

 villages. They must come provided with every thing, as the Bheels 

 living on the hill grow grain and other produce merely for their own 

 limited consumption. If a prolonged stay is anticipated, it would be 

 advisable that they be accompanied by a carpenter or two and a few 

 thatchers for the purpose of erecting a more substantial habitation 

 than that afforded by canvas. The Bheels inhabiting the hill with 

 management will be always found ready to work for the European 

 stranger ; but with the exception of cutting down and collecting timber, 

 bamboos and grass and the making of a very substantial description of 

 rope from the bark of the unjan tree, nothing more can be expected 

 from them. Their great incentives to exertion seem to be arrack and 

 tobacco ; with a due and cautious application of these luxuries, in 

 addition to the just hire of their labour, difficulties vanish. Should the 

 visitors to the hill be sportsmen, I am afraid they will not find many 

 attractions on the summit ; but in the surrounding jungles, the jungle 

 fowl is very common and the wild buffalo with all the descriptions of 

 large game usually found in the plains are numerous enough. From 

 Nassick, officers are in the habit of going to Vujuneer ; and from 

 Dhoolia and Malligaum, to Sapt-Sing for the hot season. The diffi- 

 culties to be surmounted in reaching Turan Mall, I have been in- 

 formed are not greater than what are every year undergone by the 

 gentlemen visiting for health and recreation the above-named hills. 



