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ty houses to a village, which although low compared with the Bengal 

 average, is corroborated by actual observation of the very small size of such 

 villages of Orissa as ordinarily meet the eye. In the three northern Thanas 

 which comprize the poorest and most unproductive portion of the Mo- 

 gulbandi, the average is scarcely nineteen ; in the twelve central ones it 

 is nearly twenty ; and in the three southern ones which contain the Per- 

 gunnahs adjoining Pari, filled with the large villages of the Sasan Brah- 

 mins, it is thirty. 



Again, in the first mentioned division, the ascertained number of inhabit- 

 ants, men, women, and children in 1678 houses is 9576^, yielding an average 

 of rather more than five and two-third inmates for each house. In the se- 

 cond, 5,758 houses have been found to contain 27,643 souls, or on an aver- 

 age nearly four and four-fifths per house. In the southern division, 19,930 

 houses have been ascertained to hold 1,30,871 inmates, viz. men 33,518, 

 women 33,903, infants 36,450, that is five and a fraction of about one-fifth 

 per house. Adverting to these data which have been prepared with much 

 care and accuracy, more especially in the Southern division, an average 

 rate of five per house, for the whole district, would not appear too high. On 

 this calculation, the entire population of the district will stand as follows: 



Village Inhabitants (2,43,273 X 5) 12,16,365 



Population of the town of Cuttack, - - - -- - -- 40,000 



— town of Puri, - -------- 30,000 



town of Balasore, - - - - - 10,000 



Total 12,96,365 



The area of the tract now under consideration, has been estimated with 

 tolerable accuracy at about 9,000 square miles, by counting the squares 

 into which Captain Sackville's map is divided. The result of the above 

 calculation therefore gives to the open and cultivated part of Orissa, a po- 

 pulation of 135 souls per square mile. That the estimate for Cuttack 



