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Statistical Report on the Northern and [No. 38, 



III. — Statistical Report on the Northern and Eastern Districts 

 of the Soubah of Hydrabad. By Dr. Walker, Surgeon 

 II. H. the Nizam's Army, on Special Duty. Communicat- 

 ed by Major General Fraseii, Resident at Hydrabad. 



Having traversed and explored a large portion of that part of 

 Telinganah, which is subject to the rule of His Highness the Ni- 

 zam, including the Sircars of Nelgoondah, Kmmnemmett, "Warun- 

 gul, Pamgheer and several Pergunnahs of the Dewarcondah and 

 Maiduck Sircars, in other words that large tract hounded by a 

 line a little to the eastward of Hydrabad, and contained between 

 the rivers Kistnah and Godavery, I shall in the following report 

 endeavour to give some account of the productions, population, 

 administration of Revenue and Police of these Districts, with re- 

 marks on the commerce, agriculture, and other arts practised by 

 the inhabitants. It is my intention to give in a separate memoir, 

 which will be accompanied by a map a sketch of the geology of 

 this country compiled partly from the observation of others, part- 

 ly from my own. In my first report on the Sircar of Warungul 

 some of these subjects have been to a certain extent anticipated, 

 and to it I refer generally regarding the present- memoir, supple- 

 mentary to it, and destined to supply to the best of my ability 

 the voids, that necessarily occur in it.. 



Of the Mineral Productions. 



The first of these in importance are the ores of iron, which are 1 

 very widely and commonly diffused, occurring as they do, not only 

 in the granite, and gneiss, but in the sandstone on the banks of 

 the Godavery and in the limestone which bounds the Kistnah. 



The oxygenated iron ore besides being found throughout the 

 Warungul Sircar is met with in Kummemmett particularly in tho 

 Pergunnah of Kulloor and Anantagherry, where it is extensively 

 smelted, and the ore sent to the other Pergunnahs of the Sircar, 

 and also to the neighbouring Sircar of Dewarcondah to be there 

 manufactured into metal, In the Godavery sandstone, the brown 

 clay iron ore is found existing on the surface in the shape of roll- 

 ed pieces of various sizes, and in such abundance that no mining 

 is required to supply the few furnaces, the ore being picked up 

 from the sides and foot of the low hills. In the Elgundel and 



