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478 ORISSA CANAL SYSTEM-OT-PO. 6774; number of offences reported, 1456 ; offences affecting human life, 24; dukáiti (gang-robbery), 5; number of convictions in criminal cases, 1072. In addition to the rural posts maintained but inefficiently by the chiefs, there are four State postal lines—from Cuttack to Angul, from Cuttack to Dhenkanal, from Balasor to Morbhanj, and from Russel-konda in Ganjám to Bisipárá in the Kandh-máls. Two private postal lines run from Bhadrakh in Balasor to Keunjhar, and from Baripada to Bahalda. Watch and Ward are matters of concern to the various States, there being no British system of police or imprisonment in force. Cliinate, etc. — 'The average annual rainfall over the area of the Tributary States is 55 inches. Malarious fever is common. Vaccination is little adopted. Some of the chiefs have established dispensaries of an inferior kind. Orissa Canal System.--See MAHANADI River. Otapidaram.-Táluk or Sub-division of Tinnevelli District, Madras Presidency. This extensive túluk occupies the north-eastern portion of the District, and includes the zamindúri of ETTIAPURAM. Area, 1075 square miles. Population (1881) 269,797 ; namely, 131,624 males and 138,173 females, dwelling in 3 towns and 373 villages, containing 54,592 houses. Hindus number 236,845 ; Muhammadans, 5733 ; Christians, 27,195; and others,' 24. Otapidaram tóluk is almost wholly of a uniform character, — an extensive black cotton plain relieved by scanty and poor groves of tamarind here and there, and thickets of acacia in every tank bed. Near the coast white sands prevail, producing chiefly palmyras and acacia. A few detached masses of gneiss rock, rising abruptly from the plains, form conspicuous objects; but generally the country is almost level, rising and falling slightly in long and broad slopes, which follow the drainage lines from north-west to south-east. The South Indian Railway enters the túluk from Jadura District a little south of Satúr, and has in the táluk the Maniachi junction station, Tuticorin terminus, and three road stations. Otapidaram contains TuTICORIN, the principal seaport of Tinnevelli District, and one of the most flourishing ports of the Madras Presidency. For statistics of trade, see T'UTICORIN. The táluk contained in 1883, one civil and two criminal courts; 16 police circles (thunds); 153 regular police. Land revenue, £31,252. Otapidaram. — Town in Tinnevelli District, Madras Presidency. Population (1881) 2854; number of houses, 588. Head-quarters of tahsildur of Otapidaram táluk. Police station; post-office. Ot-po.— Township in Henzada District, Irawadi Division, Lower Burma; divided into six revenue circles. To the westward, the country is mountainous; it is low in the cast, and was formerly inundated on the annual rise of the Irawadi river, but is now protected by embank