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 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE DISTRICT. 9

Taluk, These are bought by merchants residing in the Taluk, who transmit them to Cocanada and to other places, where they are freely sold for exportation.

The approximate average out-turn of the harvest in the Taluk in each grain, with its corresponding value, is as follows :—

Out-torn ia Garces, Value in Rupees,

Paddy. i = 31,500 1,575,000 Raggy - 3. 1,670 67,000 Jonna 4 :. 1,000 50,000 Other food grains. fe 1,670 67,000 Oilseeds. oD - 1,670 200,000 Other craps fs fi 43° 21,000 37,949 1,980,000

Tobaceo (in puttis). 3,900 150,000 2,130,000

Nearly half af the above products is consumed in the Taluk, and the rest is exported, There are no imports.

2. Nanasipuram Taux,

This Taluk is of the second class, and therefore ranks in size and in importance next to Rémachandrapuram. It is composed of 139 yillages, 120 being Government villages, 13 Zeminddri and Pro- prictary villages, and 6 Agrahdrams. It is situated in the south of the District, being bounded on the north by the Taluks of Tanuku and Bhimavaram, on the east by the Vainatéyam branch of the Godavery and the Taluk of Amaldpuram, on the west by the Taluk of Bhimavaram, and on the south by the sea.

The area of the Taluk is 450 square miles. The population, according to the last census, was 177,876. According to the quin- quennial returns of 1866-67 it was 161,537, 80 that the increase since that time has been 16,339, The number of Hindus is 174,253; of the Mohammedans, 3447; and of Christians, 147. There are 38,789 houses in the Taluk, of which 36,131 are inhabited. The assessed area is res,210 acres, bearing an assessment of 234,837 rupees, The revenue of the Taluk for Fasli 1242, including land �