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On the Stalislics of Dukhun, 



[Jan. 



Cnle.v, Boinbi'li'ifs, Hippohosca, and Tipula, exhibit the greatest number 

 of species and individuals. In Anwhu'ida the genera are endless. The 

 prevalence of scorpions I have spoken of. 



Civil Divisions. 



The British territories in Dukhun are divided into four coUectorates, 

 Poona, Ahiuednnggur, Dharwar, and Khandesh or Candeish. Over each 

 of these tliere is a European civil servant of the Company, with several 

 European assistants, for the purpose of collecting the revenue. These 

 gentlemen are armed with magisterial powers, and can call upon the mi- 

 litary authorities for assistance. These coUectorates are divided into 

 Talooks (great divisions), provinces, Pergunnahs (counties), and Turrufs 

 (hundreds) ;* and native officers called Mamlutdars, aided by inspectors 

 of cultivation, accountants, treasurers, and a police force, are placed over 

 one or more Pergunnahs. All these terms are of Moosulman introducti- 

 on ; the ancient Hindoo civil officers being differently named, and their 

 territorial divisions w"ere Prant, Deshmookee, and Naikwaree. The ag- 

 gregations of habitations are called Sher (city), Kusbeli (market-town), 

 Mouzeh or Gaon (village), and Waree (hamlet). The cities and towns 

 may comprise several villages, and they have their suburbs called Peit. 

 The village constitution is noticed under land tenm-es. 



Poona CoUectorate. — The Poona Collectorate is the nearest of the 

 four coUectorates of Dukhun to Bombay : its boundaries towards the 

 coast approach within about fifty miles of that presidency, but they do 

 not descend the Ghats into the strip of land at the foot of the Ghats, 

 called the Konkun (Concan). This collectorate has an area of 82S1 

 square miles, including the lands held in military tenure (Jagheer). 

 It contains 550,313 inhabitants, 1897 townsf and villages, and 114,887 

 houses ; averaging 66'45 inhabitants to a square mile, 4*79 to a house, 

 247-36 to a village, exclusive of the population of Poona. The chief 

 town is Poona, recently the capital of the Mahratta emphe, containing 

 a population of 81, 3 15 souls. The other principal towns are TuUegaon 

 (2050 males, 2007 females), Joonur (4218 males, 3759 females), Kheir 

 (1999 males, 1794 females), Goreh (1 154 males, 1 145 females), Ootoor 

 (2521 males, 1928 females), Narraingaon (1236 males, 1180 females), 



* Provinces, counties, and hundreds are not the exact equivalents of the native terri- 

 torial divisions, but they afford sufficiently approximate types. 



+ Trifling transfers have taken place betn-een the different coUectorates, so that this 

 may not be the exact amount at the present moment, 



