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ORDIXAEY GEXEEAL MEETIXG* 

 Colonel T. Holbein Hendley, CLE., in the Ciiaik. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Election : — Colonel C. E. Yate, C.S.I., C.M.G., Late Chief Commissioner 

 of Baluchistan, was elected Associate. 



The following paper was then read bv the author 



ORISSA: A LITTLE KXOWX FLOYIXCE OF THE 

 LSI) TAX EMPIRE. With some Personal Remiiiiscemes. 

 Ey C. ^X. Odling, C.S.E, M.Iiist.C.E. 



IT is iiulikely that many of those present this afternoon 

 have visited Orissa ; indeed, it is chiefly owing to so 

 little being known about this unfrequented part of the Indian 

 Empire that I have ventured to submit to this Institute 

 some observations on the country and its people. Orissa lies 

 on the sea coast, south-west of Calcutta ; it stretches from 

 the Subimreka Eiver on the north to the Ganjam district ot 

 the Madras Eresidency on the south, a distance of more than 

 200 miles; its capital town, Cuttack, is 250 miles distant 

 irom Calcutta. Ships on their way from Madras or Ceylon 

 to Calcutta generally sight either the Elack Eagoda or False 

 Point Lighthouse, both of which are situated on the Orissa 

 coast. In my time, 1865-1875, the official Orissa consisted of 

 the three British districts of Balasore, Cuttack and Eooree, and 

 of nineteen feudatory states, the whole having an area of 

 24,000 square miles, and a population of 6,290,952, according; 

 to the census of 1901. In the recent partition of Bengal 

 another British district, Sambalpur, and some more feudatory 



* Monday, March 4th, 1907. 



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