I. 



STATISTICAL REPORT 



ON THE 



OTIA ME HALS 



OF 



A M A O N. 



By GEORGE WILLIAM TRAILL, Esq. 



Commissioner for the affairs of Kamaon. 



The name of Bhot is here, properly speaking, applicable only to 

 the Himalaya ranges, which once formed a part of the adjacent Tibet 

 province of Bhot. Since the annexation of that tract to the states of 

 Kamaon and Gahnval, a portion of the neighbouring Pergunna has been 

 incorporated with the several Bhot Mehals. These villages have mostly 

 continued in the occupation of the Hindu proprietors, and as they offer 

 no peculiarities in regard to produce or management, no further notice of 

 them will be taken in the present report, which will, consequently, refer 

 solely to Bhot in its restricted sense. 



The northern boundary, as recognized by the Tibet Government, 

 extends to the commencement of the Table Land : for the southern 

 boundary the opposite base of the Himalaya range may be assigned. 

 With these limits, Bhot may be estimated as forming one- third of the 



b province. 



