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band, but when the head of the house has dined the wife sits down 

 to the remnant on the dish or on the platter of leaves. It is only 

 amongst the Mahomedans that any thing approaching to our habits 

 is found, as with them, most married couples, when alone, sit down 

 to eat together. 



IV. Statistics of the Sircar Yelgunthul. By Surgeon T. L. 

 Bell, H. H. the Nizam's Army. On Special duty. 



This Sircar is situated between 18° 5" and 19° 5" North Lati- 

 tude, and between 78° 30" and 79° 45" East Longitude* and is 

 bounded on the North by the river Godavery on the N.E. by the 

 Sircar of Ramghere, on the N.W. by that of Nandair, on the S. 

 and S.E. by Mullungoor, on the S.W. by Maiduc. Two Purgun- 

 nahs namely Vejeeghery and Velchal form a detached portion 8 

 miles to the Eastward, this is bounded on the North and West by 

 Ramghere, on the South and East by Worrungul. The extreme 

 length from N. to S. is 68 miles and breadth from E. to W. 48 miles 

 not including the detached portion which forms an irregular pa- 

 rallelogram measuring 23 miles from E. to W. and 10 miles from 

 North to South. The whole comprising an area of 27,554 square 

 miles. 



The general aspect of the Sircar is hilly present- 

 Aspeet. . ... _. 



mg ranges which cross it diagonally, separating 



from each other and bounding three extensive plains : at the S.W. 

 part of the Sircar the lowest of these ranges is seen, passing from 

 the S.E. to the North- West the height does not exceed 350 feet 

 above the level of the plain, the length of this chain from where it 

 enters to where it quits is 9 miles. The second is distant from the 

 first 18 miles and parallel to it, enters 5 miles S.E. of Saniagarum 

 and traverses the Sircar in a N.W. direction terminating near In- 

 gul where it joins the Western range, by lower and almost detached 

 hills ; its length is 32 miles. 



The Western range commences 6 miles South of Ingul, and pro- 

 ceeds North increasing in elevation as it advances ; at some points 



* Geographical Memoir. 



