1839] 



On the Statistics of Dukhun. 



nite ingenuity in avoiding the detection of a fraud or mistake in their 

 papers ; many of this class, however, I found too stupid to keep an in- 

 dividual's account, much less the complicated details of a village assess- 

 ment. The shopkeepers being generally people from Goojrat, keep 

 their accounts in the Goojratee language. The character in universal 

 use for business is the Mohrin the districts. The following will show 

 the number of schools, as far as the returns received from the collectors 

 will permit, — not any account of schools was received from the collector 

 of Ahmednuggur. In the Collectorate of Dharwar there is one school 

 to 2452 inhabitants ; in Khandesh there is only one school to 4369 souls ; 

 and, in the Poona Collectorate, deducting the population of the city of 

 Poona, there is one school to 3337 souls. It is fair to infer therefore, 

 that as Dharwar supports proportionably so many more schools than the 

 other coUectorates, that information is more generally spread amongst 

 the people, and that they are better able to manage their affairs than 

 others less instructed; and the breadth of cultivation, and general manu- 

 facturing and commercial industry of the people, would seem to justify 

 the inference. — Report of the Seventh Meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion for the advancement of Science, 



(To he concluded in our next.) 



