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118 MYSORE DISTRICT. 2089 Pindárís, 2573 Labbays, 1646 Daira or Mahadavi; and 'other' Muhammadans, 421. Out of the total of 2603 Christians, 184 were returned as Europeans and 221 as Eurasians, leaving 2198 for native converts. According to another principle of division, there were 634 Protestants and 1969 Roman Catholics. Mysore District contains 2137 towns and villages, with few houses of the better class, or over 50 in value. Of the total number of and villages, 845 contain less than two hundred inhabitants; 798 from two to five hundred; 351 from five hundred to one thousand ; 110 from one to two thousand ; 19 from two to three thousand; 9 from three to five thousand; 3 from five to ten thousand; 1 from ten to fifteen thousand; and I more than fifty thousand. The town of MYSORE, which is described in the following article, covers an area of about 3 square miles, and contains a total population of 60,292 persons. The four following towns also each contain a population of more than 5000: -SERINGAPATAM, 11,734; MALVALLI, 5078; HUNSUR or Dod-Húnsúr, 5670; and NANJANGAD, 5202. There are altogether eleven municipalities in the District, with an aggregate municipal revenue in 1880-81 of £9643. Of the interesting sites may be mentioned TALKAD, the ancient metropolis of Southern India, now covered with blown sand that has drifted from the bed of the river Kaveri (Cauvery); the ancient city of TIRKANAMBI; the old cantonments at Hirode or FRENCH Rocks; and the hill of CHAMUNDI, with its colossal figure of the sacred bull of Siva. The celebrated falls of the Kaveri near SIVASAMUDRAM lie just beyond the Mysore boundary, within the Madras District of Coimbatore. Agriculture.—The main cultivation of Mysore District consists of dry crops, though there are especially favoured tracts where the facility of irrigation permits rice to be grown. The great food staple is ragi (Eleusine corocana, Gærtn.), which is preferred by the labouring classes to rice, on account of its strengthening qualities. It is estimated that 4s. will purchase enough of this grain to sustain a man for one month. The straw of ragé furnishes, also, the best fodder for cattle. The crops, both wet and dry, are generally classed as hain or kár, according to the season; but it is not usual to take both a hain and a kár crop off the same land. Hain crops, both wet and dry, are sown in July and August; kár wet crops in September, and kir dry crops in April. All crops can be grown as either hain or kúr, with the exception of certain sorts of rice, cotton, wheat, gran, and many vegetables, which are grown as hain only. Among miscellaneous crops raised only in certain localities, may be mentioned tobacco, cotton, and sugar-cane. Coffee cultivation has been attempted, but with little success. In 1883 there were 85 plantations owned by natives occupying 132 acres of land, yielding an approximate out-turn of 1400