1851.] 



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ton cloths, cumlies, and vegetables are disposed of. With the ex- 

 ception of a small number of quilts there are no manufactured ar- 

 ticles exported. 



Juctial — Also a jaghere in the Purgunnah of Polass is the next 

 town in size ; it is distant North of Yelgunthul 22 miles, contains 

 516 houses and 2,812 inhabitants; the streets are regular and the 

 houses not crowded together as they usually are. 



There are one hundred and twelve looms for the manufacture of 

 fine and coarse cloths, the former amounting in the last year to 

 1,141 pieces of nine yards by one and quarter, valued at 10,141 

 rupees, were exported ; besides cloths Juctial sends a considerable 

 quantity of slippers to the city market, which find a ready sale on 

 account of the good quality of the leather. To the N.W. of the 

 village at the distance of half a mile is the fort, octagonal in shape 

 and about 200 yards in diameter, all the walls are of substantial* 

 material, the rivetment stone and chunam, the parapet brick and 

 chunam, the counterscarp 14 feet in height, the escarp from 31 to 

 35 feet ; the ditch is deep and broad crossed on the N.W. side 

 by two draw-bridges ; it is said to have been built 90 years ago 

 by a Mussulman named Durrum Sahib, who had a French engineer 

 under him. It is kept in repair at a cost of about 3,000 rupees 

 annually, and garrisoned by a Killadar and 210 men. Juctial is the 

 Kusba of the Thevecondah and Polass Purgunnahs, as the Talook- 

 dar of these districts holds it in jaghere. Thevecondah is in ruins 

 and the small town of Polass has been separated from the Pur 

 gunnah as Agrarum. 



Gumberowpett — The kusba of the Racherla Purgunnah is a large 

 village 76 miles West of Yelgunthul ; it has 505 houses and a po- 

 pulation of 2,405 chiefly employed in agriculture. 



Of Racherla not one house remains ; traces of a fort and ruined 

 mosque are all that mark its former site. The people in the neigh- 

 bourhood attribute its desertion to the unhealthiness of the locali- 

 ty, but there is nothing to bear out this assertion, a more likely 

 cause is found in the fact of there being two broken bunds of 

 tanks in its immediate vicinity ; these tanks formerly irrigated a 



