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Report on the Goomsur, Duspullah 



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"V. — Report on the Goomsur, Duspullah, and Boad Zemindaries, — 

 By Lieut, S. C. Macpherson, Assistant Surveyor General. 



Contents. — The Report connected with the accompanying plan of 

 routes and sketches of country in the Goomsur, Duspullah, n 

 Boad zemindaries, is divided into two parts. 



The first relates, 1st to the general configuration and superfi ;iai 

 characters, and 2d to the geology, of the country to which the survey 

 extends j 3d to the measurement and detailed description of the routes 

 traversed; to routes compiled from native information; and to memo 

 randa connected with the march of troops. 



The second part refers, 1st to the civil geography and statistics of the 

 districts visited; and 2d to the institutions, the manners and the re 

 ligion, the system of social and individual life, of the portion of the 

 Khondrace, south of the Mahanuddy ; with sketches of the history 

 of the relations of its principal sections to the zemindaries of Boad 

 and Goomsur. 



To this division of the report, is appended an imperfect notice of the 

 Sourah race,— a widely extended and apparently aboriginal people of 

 the great mountain chain and farther hill region of Orissa, which re- 

 places the Khond tribes on the south, and is like them undescribed. 



The skeleton map prefixed, indicates the civil subdivisions of the 

 country traversed. The unvisited tracts are ^ocally subdivided on 

 the authority of carefully collated native statements. 



The western route from Gottingia to Sohnpore, and thence up the 

 valley of the Tale-nuddee, is from the survey of Lieut. Campbell. 

 The civil divisions which appear in that quarter are mine. 



A list of native authorities is appended. 



SECTION L 



Of the Configuration and Superficial Characters of the 

 Country- in the Plan. 



Extent.^Tht portion of country represented in the plan, is included 

 between the lines of 19o 55 and 20^ 50 N.lat. and in the 85th degree 

 of E, long. 



