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should fall much below that suggested for Bengal, viz. 203 per square mile, 

 will not surprise those who have attended to the picture drawn in the 

 preceding part of this paper, of the general poverty of the people, and the 

 paucity of large towns and villages. 



The statements for the Pergunnahs Raheng, Seraeii, Choubiskud, Ul- 

 dhar, and Rorang, which are by far the most to be relied on, yield the fol- 

 lowing proportions of the principal classes, viz. 



Total number of Householders, - > - - <■ - 10,930 



4,887 



Chasas* or Husbandmen, - ■. - . -'* - - 7,432 



Brahmins, - - - _„_-».. 3,565 



Mahtis, (Carana or Writer cast,) - - - 611 



Gowalas, (Cowherds), - - - - 537 



Baniyas, both Druggists andShrofFs, - - .-- 232 



Artisans, Manufacturers, Shopkeepers, &c. of all sorts excepting} 



the above, - - - - - - - - * 



Low casts as Fishermen, Kandras, Pans, Bawaris, Chandal, &c 



who furnish common labourers, coolies, village watch- J- 2,420 



men, &c. -- ___ .-- 



Balance composed of Mussulmans, foreigners, mendicants and 



casual residents, - - - 



It will not be altogether uninteresting to compare the estimate here at- 

 tempted of the population of Cuttack, with the sales of salt for the supply 

 of the district. Salt is sold on the part of government at several golahs or 

 store-houses in the interior, in quantities of not less than one maund, at the 

 fixed monopoly price of Sicca Rupees two per maund, increased by charges 

 of transportation, storing, commission, &c. which raise the price according 



* It should be observed, Iliat although the Chasas art; the proper cultivating caste of Orissa. many 



of the other classes, tenant land, and pay revenue as rjots. 



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