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Statistics of the Sircar Yelgunthul. [No. 39,, 



large extent of rice land which is now overgrown with jungle, the 

 people having forsaken the town for other villages more favorably 

 circumstanced for agricultural pursuits. 



Korutlah — The kusba of the Purgunnah of that name, is si- 

 tuated N.W. of Yelgunthul 39 miles on the left bank of the Ped- 

 davagoo, a ruined wall partly surrounds the town which contains 

 424 houses and 2,157 inhabitants ; it has no pretension to regularity 

 in the arrangement of its streets, nor to cleanliness. Coarse writing 

 paper is manufactured here and sent to the city and Jaulnah for 

 sale, 12 mills giving employment to 74 people are kept in pretty 

 constant work. The quantity produced last year was 864 reams 

 valued at 2,239 rupees and 12 annas. It is the only town in the Sircar 

 where paper is made ; an inferior description of cotton cloth is 

 woven and exposed for sale at the weekly fair and occasionally 

 £ent to other markets, 760 pieces the production of 31 looms was 

 the extent to which this branch of industry was carried during the 

 last year, their aggregate value being 4,560 rupees. 



Sircilla — In the Havalee Purgunnah is a large town with 464 

 houses and 2,267 inhabitants ; it is distant to. the "Westward of 

 Yelgunthul 32j miles, the population are chiefly agricultural, but 

 cumlies and coarse cloths are made to a limited extent. The 

 town is built upon very broken ground and is irregular in conse- 

 quence. It contains bazars and a small ruined ghurry. 



Moncondoor — Is perhaps the most flourishing town in the Sir- 

 car, it is situated in the Havalee Purgunnah 9f miles S.E. of 

 Yelgunthul, is surrounded by a ditch, and wall now in ruins, and 

 has a large stone ghurry. Twenty years ago it contained 100 

 houses, it now numbers 421 with a population of 2,224; there are 

 22 looms for the manufacture of coarse cloths. 



Kurreem Naggur — Is the kusba of the Havalee Purgunnah and 

 where the Sudder Naib resides ; it is 6| miles to the East of Yel- 

 gunthul on the left bank of the Munar, contains 202 houses and 

 988 inhabitants ; the finest rice grown in the Sircar is raised in its 

 vicinity, and sent to the city market. 



Metpully — Is the kusba of the Velloolah Purgunnah ; it is 40 

 miles to the N.W. of Yelgunthul, contains 861 houses and 3,096 



