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PALAR-PALASBARI. 541 mortar wall, built in 1750 by Diwán Bahadur Khánjí, from 17 to 20 feet high, 6 feet thick, and 3 miles in circuit. The two suburbs of Jainpura and Tajpura are surrounded by a ditch once 12 feet deep and 22 feet broad. The houses are irregular and closely packed, and, with eptions, the streets and lanes are narrow and dirty. The supply of water, chiefly from wells, is unwholesome. The public health is not good, lung diseases and fevers being very prevalent. A beginning has been made towards lighting the town. A traveller's bungalow has been recently built. Hospital, post and telegraph offices, school, and library. A station on the Bombay, Baroda, and Central Railway. Pálár ('Milk River ;' also called the kohíranathi). - River of Southern India. Rising in the State of Mysore, in lat. 13° 27' N., and long. 78° 2' E., it flows south and east into North Arcot District, cutting off a small portion of North Salem, thence nearly duc east across North Arcot into Chengalpat (Chingleput), and finally south-east until it falls into the sea in lat. 12° 27' 20" N., and long. So° 12' 30" E., a few miles south of SADRAS. Total length, about 230 miles. The chief tributaries of the Palár are the l'oini and Cheyár; and on its banks are the towns of Kistnapur, Vanienībadi, Ambúr, Gudiatham, Vellore, Arcot, Wallajábid, and Chengalpat. It is crossed by railway bridges at Malevatti in North Arcot (2376 feet long, 18 spans), and between Chengalpat and Madarantakam (2160 feet long, 18 spans). The waters of the Pillír are largely used for irrigation. The Pálár anicut is thrown across the river near the town of Arcot. Its length is 2600 feet, and is the head of a system which irrigates about 3800 acres. The original work was constructed in 1855; it was damaged seriously in 1874, but has been restored chiefly by faniine labour. The receipts from this irrigation system were $10,989 in 1882-53, and the ex £10,531. Total capital expenditure up to end of 1883, £211,276. There is some reason to believe that the Palár river once flowed in the present Cortelliár valley, which has been described as “disproportionately large as compared with the river which runs through it in a rather deep channel. The present valley of the Pálár is still more disproportionately small as compared with its river; the two alluvial valleys join, or rather diverge, at a place about 10 miles east of the town of Arcot. A stream is even now connected with the Pálár, just at the fork, by which water is still carried down the Cortelliár valley for many miles, and eventually falls into that river. This stream is considered by the natives to be the old Pálár, and bears a Sanskrit naine meaning the 'old milk river,' the Tamil word Pálár also signifying milk river. Palásbárí.-Market village in Kámrúp District, Assam ; situated in lat. 26° 8' N., and long. 91° 35' E., on the south or left bank of the Brahmaputra. Considerable river traffic, and a local market twice a week. Police outpost station and staging bungalow.