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It is now deserted, having been abandoned in the days of Duryao 

 Deo on account of its unhealthiness, although it bears the marks of 

 having been at one time a very extensive town, the limits of which 

 may now be traced to a circuit of about 2 coss or about 7 miles. 

 Jngdulpore, now the principal town, is situated on the banks of the 

 Indrawutty at a distance S. S. E. from Raipore of about 200 miles. 

 It contains about 400 houses of inferior construction, thatched 

 with grass, the walls being formed of bamboo matting plastered 

 with mud. Such being the condition of the town chosen as the 

 residence of the Rajah, it is not surprising to find that the names 

 of no more than 30 or 40 villages are mentioned as containing 

 from 100 to 200 houses all of the same construction. The names 



, 0 f some 0 f these have been inserted 



in the margin. An extraordinary cus- 

 tom prevailed in this dependency un- 

 til within the last 2 or 3 years when 

 it was put a stop to by the present 

 Dewan Dulgunjun Sing which would 

 fully account for the inferior class 

 of houses. 'Whenever any member 

 of a household died it was consider- 

 ed necessary to destroy the whole 

 of the tenement in which the event 

 took place, and to build another on 

 some other spot. Nothing, it may 

 easily be conceived, could more ef- 

 fectually tend to retard and keep the 

 people in a constant state of restless- 

 ness. 



6. The principal river in the dependency 

 Rivers. is the Indrawutty which rising in the ghauts of 



Th'ooamool to the north east of the dependency, 

 pursues a south westerly course through the centre of the country, 

 receiving many tributary streams, and forming with them, which 

 include nearly all those worthy of mention, the natural watershed 

 of this division of the Province. The river is not of great breadth 

 but its bed is rocky, and its stream is constant throughout the 

 year. Its extreme length from the source to where it joins the 





No. of 



Villages. 



houses 





about, 





250 





200 





200 





200 



Kondagaon ...... 



Sampore 



200 



150 





150 



Rajoor . 



150 





150 



Moolmoola 



150 



150 



Killapal 



150 





100 





100 



Koomakonda 



100 



Kustoori 



100 





100 





100 



Rajuno-gurh 



100 





100 



