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Rh were about thirty-six of these districts in the regulation Provinces, exclusive of the non-regulation territories already mentioned. Then each group of districts was formed into a province, and was placed under a still higher officer, styled Commissioner, who superintended the Magistrates and Collectors, and who locally represented the Lieutenant-Governor; there were six of these Commissioners in the Provinces. Lastly, removed from Allahábád to Agra, was the Board of Revenue, consisting of two or more members.

In his high estate he would primarily think of the masses of the Native population. Now, sympathy with the Natives has ever characterised the Civil Service of India. But this sympathy has been evinced in various ways by different persons. Some have mixed so familiarly with the people as to become versed in their colloquial vernacular, riding, hunting, walking with them in the glaring sunshine, sitting with them under the shade of trees, conversing with them in the cool air of evening or round the watch-fires at night. Such men have acquired genuine popularity with the Natives. Others, without going quite so far as this, have by a hearty, genial, good-humoured manner, together with personal knowledge of local traits and idiosyncrasies, attracted popular regard. Some have happily had occasion by saving life, or mitigating pestilence, or by other deeds of signal beneficence, to raise up a monument to themselves in the Native heart. Some again, by teaching and exhorting, almost