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NEITAS. TOIM.V-AG-PU-TAIP. 293 forms the boundary of the Sub-division on the north. One village belonging to the Nizam lies south of the river, thus breaking the continuous boundary for three miles. It is the rule to plough heavy lands every year. The garden lands are generally manured, but not the dry-crop lands of the plain, though sheep are occasionally penned on them. The lands do not appear to be allowed a fallow. A system of crop changes is observed, but there is not a sufficient variety of crops to admit of a good rotation. The area under rabi or late crops is double that under kharif or early crops. The area of irrigated land is small. During the seven years ending 1881, an annual average area of 157 acres was irrigated. Of 193,254 acres, the actual area under cultivation in 1881-82, grain crops occupied 165,203 acres (70,891 acres were under bijro); pulses occupied 15,883 acres; oilsecds, 3245 acres; fibres, 7380 acres (7279 acres were under cotton); and miscellaneous crops, 1543 acres. Land revenue (1882), £18,146. The Sub-division in 1883 contained 3 civil and 3 criminal courts; police circle (thin), 1; regular police, 38 men; village watch (chaukidurs), 205. Newasa. - Head-quarter town of Newasa Sub-division, Ahniadnagar District, Bombay Presidency; situated in lat. 19° 3+' N., long. 75° 1., 35 miles north-east of Ahmadnagar town. Population (1881) 3804. Beside the Sub-divisional and police offices, Newása has a sub-judge's court, dispensary, and weekly market on Sundays. In 1290, Dnyáneswar, the great Maráthá poet, wrote his commentary on the Bhagwadgitá at Newasa, which he calls Nivás. Neyatankarai,--- Téluk or Sub-division of Travancore State, Vladras Presidency. Area, 213 square miles; villages or collections of villages, karas, 151. Population (1875) 106,128 ; (1881) 110,410, namely, 55,318 males and 55,092 females, occupying 24,072 houses. Hindus number 89,464; Muhammadans, 5237; and Christians, 15,709. Nga-pí-seip. - Village in Kan-aung township, Henzada District, Irawadi Division, Lower Burma; situated on the right bank of the Irawadi. Population under 300. Nga-pu-taw. — Township occupying the extreme south-western portion of Bassein District, Irawadi Division, Lower Burina. It is divided into two very dissimilar tracts by the Arakan Yoma range. The south-eastern one consists of a large island (33 miles long by 7 broad) lying in the Bassein river, and intersected by numerous intercommunicating tidal creeks. Off the Bassein mouth is Diamond Island; farther out to sea is the ALGUADA reef. Towards the north the country is flat and covered with forest, whilst in the extreme north the surface is dotted with small sandstone hills. West of the Arakan range, nowhere more than 16 miles from the sea, the whole country is mountainous, the spurs extending by gradual slopes to the sandy beach,