W Statistical Report on the [No. 38, 



Hydrabad survey, and to tlie Geographical memoir accompanying 

 it. The only change is that the high road from Madras to Hydra- 

 bad no longer passes by Nelgoondah, but strikes the Masulipatam 

 road at Nakrikul. Mostly all the Gkirrees of the villages, are in a 

 tumble down state but are repairable at a small cost, their founda- 

 tions always remaining. The three old Hindoo fortresses of Nel- 

 goondah, Devarcondah and Woondragondah still remain but with- 

 out ordnance of any description. The number of men employed 

 and paid by the Government for the collection of the revenue, and 

 for the purposes of Police are eighty Arabs or Eohillahs, at 15 Es. 

 a month, under a Chiaous, 180 Linewallahs, as they are called, who 

 receive Es. 4 to Es. 5 a month, under a Commandant, who gets Es. 

 100 a month, and three or four Native officers. There are besides 

 80 Suwars at Es. 30 a month for each horse, and 150 Police Pea- 

 dahs at Es. 3 to Es. 2^ of monthly pay. 



The Arabs are feared by all, some of the Suwars are well mount- 

 ed, the Linewallahs the miserable representatives of the old French 

 Corps, and who still retain their words of command in French, 

 are a poor set, and the Peadahs are indifferently armed ragamuf- 

 fins. 



In former and more prosperous times, water to fill tanks was 

 drawn by means of water courses from the Moosy river, but these 

 have been all choked up ; they might be cleared out at a small ex- 

 pense, and nothing would conduce more than such a proceeding to 

 the well being of a country so cursed by drought. 



The Sahyer of this Sircar is farmed by a Brahmin Doorgah Nur. 

 singah, and Mahomed Kassim a Mahomedan, who pay the rent to 

 the Naib Talooqdar. I have placed an asterisk to the villages con- 

 taining more than a thousand inhabitants, by running over the 

 lines opposite, as much information will be gathered as any detail- 

 ed account can afford. 



'Ferries on the Kistnah River. 



The Kistnah is crossed at four points in the following order of 

 places taking them from east to west, Groonlumpilly, "Warapilly, 

 or 'Wazeerabad, Mooneemanicum, Chittial, Chintalpallem and Yel- 

 liswarum, all in the Sircar Deevarcondah. At Warapilly there 

 is a strong commodious boat of teakwood but at all the otter pla- 

 ces the boat3 are merely round baskets of wicker made of the vi- 



