MADRAS JOURNAL 



OF 



LITERATURE AND SCIENCE. 



JSfo, 35. Jamiary — June, 1849. 



I. Statistical Report on the Circar of JVarungul. By A. 

 Walker, Esq., M.D., Bombay Estahlishment, Nizam's Ser- 

 vice. Communicated by Major General Fraser. 



The Circar of Warungul, as it is called by the Mahomedans, 

 but by the Hindoos Warunkal — a name derived from two Cana- 

 rese words signifying the place of the touchstone, or, more literally, 

 of the black stone — is situated between 17° 24/ and 18° 24^ north 

 latitude, and 79° 11^ and 80° 22° east longitude; its boundary 

 comprising an area (including enclaves of adjacent areas) of 3,266 

 square miles. Its extreme length from east to west is about 80 

 miles, and its breadth from west to south 70 miles. The Bam- 

 gheer, MuUangore, and Elgundel Circars bound it to the north. 

 On the east it has the Eamgheer and Kummemmet Circars. On 

 the west Bowngheer, and on the south Kummemmet and Nul- 

 goondah. 



So dove-tailed is this Circar with others, that without a very ac- 

 curate map it would be impossible to state its area with exactness. 

 The southern portion has been surveyed, and mapped, and the 

 results published, but the map of the northern portion, though sur- 

 veyed, has not yet been given to the world. 



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