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all revenues whether from land, or local taxes to be his proper- 

 ty, he therefore makes over the village to him in the name of Bud- 

 ruchullum Ramaswamy with great satisfaction, desiring him to fix 

 his residence in the village, to encourage tillage whether by the 

 ryots belonging to the village, or by ryots from other parts, trusting 

 that it may yield him much profit; he further directs him to dig 

 wells, and tanks, to plant fruit trees, cultivate gardens, and erect tem- 

 ples, to employ himself in devotional exercises and to feed Brahmins, 

 at the same time offering up prayers for the long life and prosperity 

 for himself and his august master. 



IV '.— Statistics of the Sircar of Pytun. ByW. H. Brad- 

 ley, Esq., Surgeon H. H. the Nizam's Army ; on Special 

 Duty. 



The Sircar of Pytun takes the form of an irregular square, ave- 

 raging twenty-four miles in length and breadth, and comprehends 

 ^ rea an area of four hundred and forty-six square British 



miles ; thirty-four and a half of which are claimed by 

 Scindia* Its boundaries are Doulutabad and Jaulnah upon the north, 

 Ahmednuggur on the south, Doulutabad upon the west, and Bheer and 

 Jaulnah upon the east. 



Geological lam not aware that the Geological features of the 

 Structure. Sircar differ in their general bearings from those of 

 Doulutabad ; here as there, the same evidences present themselves 

 of the nature of those stupendous secondary instruments the Creator 

 employed, in adapting the earth for the higher forms of organization, 

 transforming the level of an immense ocean bed into plains teeming 

 with life. The period when the rocks of these trap districts were 

 formed, and disposed, in the order we now perceive, occurred, in all 

 probability, in those remote geological epochs, that long preceded 

 the historical ages of the world. Deep waters then covered, what 

 is now occupied with dry land, over whose sedimentary precipitations, 

 molten streams of igneous matter flowed, ejected from fiery caverns 

 beneath their beds ; the eruptions subsiding to return again at uncer- 

 tain intervals : the varying thickness of their deposits marking faithful- 

 ly the periods of repose, in proportion to the amount of heat transmit- 

 ted, their structure assumed more or less a crystalline character; the 



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