1849.] 



Circar of TVarungul. 



ditch ; and external to that another mud wall of the circumference 

 of twentj-four miles. The labor of constructing such enormous 

 mounds, must have been great, and we are justified in believing 

 that the population of the Indian Gribeonites, such as the "Woodea- 

 wars, must have been greater in those da.ys than it is now. AYas 

 the government of the Andra kings a paternal rule like that of the 

 Incas, or was it the unmitigated tyranny of the Pharoahs ? The 

 scanty remains of the outcast population, and the huge works tra- 

 dition assigns to their labor, incline us to the last conjecture. 



PEEeuNJfAH OoPAL — ChejS'dagheeey. Thesc two pergunnahs 

 are usually classed together — in the first there is no considerable 

 village — the most populous not containing more than eight hundred 

 inhabitants. In the second there is but one town that rises above 

 a thousand inhabitants — "WungapiUy. In both these pergunnahs 

 money rents are included in the sevaee jumma ; the grain renta 

 under the head of land revenue. 



KoTAGTiTTA Katajpooe— as the pergunnah is called— Katajpoor 

 being at one time a place of some importance. It is now a wretched 

 village consisting of mud huts thatched. The cliief towns are 

 Hutmakore^ or Atmacore, the residence of the Surdeshmookh, who 

 has his house there surrounded with a substantial brick wall— 

 Dogundee, and Kalapurthee. 



Paijkal HrssAis'ABAD, KoTAcoiTDAn HcssA^TAEAD. — •Hussana- 

 bad is a pergunnah, the villages of which are scattered over the 

 whole Circar," but chiefly are associated with those of the Kotacon- 

 dah and Paukal pergunnahs, Hunnumcondah the residence of the 

 Naib Taloogdar, adjoining to which is the British cantonment, is a 

 large village with many tiled houses. It is situated under a black 

 granite hiU, and from the rem.ains in its neighbourhood must for- 

 merly have been a place of some consequence. These remains con- 

 sist of an ancient Hindoo fortification, a temple dedicated to Siva 

 and Jain, figiu-escut out of the granite hiH in alto-relievo. Its town 

 duties and taxes are shared by six zemindars. The Koorwah 

 talookha is attached to Pakhall, a wild tract inhabited by Xoorwars 

 — an indigenous race who speak Teloogoo, but are not Hindoos. 

 The nature of their country may be conceived from a saying of the 

 natives, that a red squirrel can reach Bundrachellum on the Goda- 

 very, by leaping from tree to tree. Their villages are the merest 

 hamlets, with a small patch of cultivation adjoining them, having to 



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