MADEAS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



No. 38. July— December, 1850. 



I. — Statistical Report on the Sircar of Nelgoondah. By 

 Dr. Walker, Surgeon H. H. the Nizam' 's Army, on Spe- 

 cial Duty, Communicated by Major General Fraser, Re- 

 sident at Hydrabad. 



The Sircar of elgoondah and the five Pergimnahs of the Devar- 

 condah Sircar, of which the accompanying tables give the statis- 

 tical details, are bonnded on the south by the Kistnah river and 

 the Grunpore Sircar, on the west by the Kummum Sircar, and by 

 the Pergunnah of Moonegal, belonging to the Company ; on the 

 north by the Warungul and Bougheer Sircars, and on the east by 

 the Bougheer Sircar, and other portions of the Devarcondah Sir- 

 car. This tract lies between 79° 56' and 78° 39' east longitude, 

 and 16° 32° and 16° 57° to 17° 50° north latitude, and con- 

 tains 516 inhabited villages with their hamlets, of these fifteen are 

 Jagheer villages, from which no returns were received, but the 

 population of which is calculated from the average number of in- 

 habitants to each village being 190 souls. The whole population 

 is 98,261 which, taking the area at 2,7 44 miles, gives about 36 in- 

 habitants to the square mile the houses are 19,387 giving an aver- 

 age of 4-82 per house on the population of 95,456 which is exclu- 

 sive of the Jagheer villages. For the streams that water the coun- 

 try, for the roads by which it is traversed, and for the tanks, their 

 number and size, reference is made to the published map of the 



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