CHAPTER XXXVI. 
DESCRIPTION OF DF.FO^ITH— continued. 
The Central Provinces— Nagpur District; with the 
Nimar, Seoni, and Wun Districts. 
Ndgpur district — History — Output and labour — Geology — Physic \1 characters 
of (lie country — Classification and list of deposits — Nature and quality of the ores— 
Communications and transport. 
Class I — Group I — Kodegaon — Gun;gaon — Ramdongri. 
G ro up II — Risara — Na ndg on di — Sitagond i . 
Group III— Kandri — Mansar— i\Iansar Extension — J'arsoda — Borda. 
Group IV — Parsioni and Bansinghi — Dumri Kalan — !~^atak — Beldongr: — Nagar- 
dhan — Nandapuri — Lohdongri — Kacharwahi — Waregaon — Khandala. 
Group V — Mandri^ — Panchala — Manegaon — Guguldoho — Bhandarbori. 
Class II. — Group VI— Mohugaon — Pali — Ghogira (Pench River)— Mandvi Bir- 
Junawani — Junapani — Rajkota. 
Nimdr District — Chandgarh — .Tamdihi Nala — Br^nkuti. 
Seoni District — Kurai. 
Wun (Yeotmdl) District — Malagarh H 11. 
The Nagpur District. 
This is the district in the Central Provinces in wliich manganese- 
ore was fir.st worked on a commercial scale and also that in which 
the occurrence of manganese-ore has been longest known. It also 
contains the largest number of deposits being actively worked and 
will need a large amount of space for its description. 
The earliest record of the occurrence of manganese-ore in India 
refers to the Nagpur district. Captain F. Jenkins 
iHistorv. 1 -1 • 
in 1829 describes an exposure in the Penchl 
ri\ er near Parsioni of black manganese-ore in crystalline limestone, 
and gives quite a long account of a similar deposit of manganese-ore 
in crystalline limestone at a place 3 or 4 miles north of the village of 
Kumari^, which is almost certainly the deposit I have described 
under the heading of Mandvi Bir and Junawani^. 
H. W. Voysey 4 in 1830 mentions the same occurrence of ' foliated 
black manganese-ore ' in the Pench. 
1 Glean. Sci., I, pp. 226, 227, (1829) ; 
Asiatic Researches, XVIII, p. 210, (1833). 
2 Loc. cil., p. 208. 
3 Page 966. 
4 Gleanings Sci. II, p. 28, (1830) ; 
Js. Jiesearche-u p. 127, (1833). 
