1849.] 



Statistics of the Circar of Doiolutahad. 



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pound against any in Mysore for quality, quantity and length of pro- 

 duce, at any season of the year, as I believe no man in India has 

 ever taken the same pains to bring this particular grass to perfec- 

 tion, and that for a period of five years. It is no doubt a descrip- 

 tion of couch grass, for it is equally difficult to extirpate, and the 

 roots are generally found a foot from the surface, and the smallest 

 particle left in the ground will shoot up. I return the several papers 

 and am only sorry I have not had time to consider the subject in the 

 manner I should wish, so excuse this hasty reply. 



(Signed) C. G. Ottley. 



IV. Statistics of the Circar of Dowlutahad. By Surgeon W. 

 H. Bradley_, ^ih Begiment Nizam^s Infantry. 



^ The Circar of Dowlutahad is an extensive district 



in the province of Aurungabad, averaging 60 miles 

 in length and 50 miles in breadth. It is situated between the 19th 

 and 2 1st degrees of northern latitude, on an extent of hill and 

 plain bounded north by Kandesh, east by Beytelbarree and Jaul- 

 nah, south by Peytun, and west by the Ahmednuggur districts, the 

 windings of the Godavery marking its limits upon the south-west. 

 According to Arrowsmith's map, its area may be roughly estimated 

 at about 2,900 square British miles, which, reckoning the population 

 at 1,94,767 inclusive of that within the city of Aurungabad, gives 67 

 souls to the square mile. 



The geological features of the whole district are 

 StrucSre^ simple and unvaried, forming as it does an integrant 

 portion of the great trap formation of central India, the 

 leading characteristics of which are all present. 



The prevailing rocks throughout appear to be a clay stone por- 

 phyry or amj^gdaloid through which basalt is disposed either stra- 

 tiformly in horizontal masses, or as instrusive veins and dykes; in 

 all instances assuming a crystalline form which has conformed to the 

 circumstances under which it had been ejected, and is either colum- 

 nar, spheroidal, vesicular or amygdaloidal ; these varieties are fre- 

 quently observed passhig into each other by such insensible grada- 

 tions that it becomes almost impossible to assign distinct characters 

 to the rocks so circumstanced. 



