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has suffered very sev'erely from the fever which has been ravaging the District since 1863,

on

Bardwan

and of which an account

District.

The

will

be found

principal buildings in the

in the article

town are the

palace of the Maharajd, a fine large edifice, many of the apartments in which are furnished in European fashion the Sivalaya, a collection of 108 temples arranged in two circles, one within the other ; and the shrine of Pi'rbaharam. The towm figures more than once in history,

having been captured by Prince Kharram (afterw'ards the Emperor Shah

Jahan)

in 1624,

and again in 1695 by the Hindu rebel Subah Singh, Raja, and was soon afterw’ards himself killed by the Rajas daughter, whom he attempted to outrage. There is a station of the East Indian Railway at Bardw’an ; distance from Calcutta, 67 miles.

Bardwdr. Province



— Forest

reserve in the south of

chiefly sal (Shorea robusta).

north.

Kamrup

bounded on the west by the Kulsi

Total area of the tw’o

There

is

river.

District,

The

Assam

trees are

a second forest reserve to the

25 ’40 square miles.

tracts,

—

Bareilly {Bareh ). District in the Lieutenant-Governorship of the North-Western Provinces, lying between 28° 3' and 28° 54' n. lat.,

and between 79° Population in

3'

1881,

and 79°

50' e.

1,030,936 souls.

long.; area, 1614 square miles. Bareilly

a District of the

is

Rohilkhand Division, and is bounded on the north by the Tarai District on the east by the new District of Pilibhit on the south by Shahjahanpur and Budaun Districts and on the west by Budaun and ,



Rampur



The

State.

administrative head-quarters are at the town of

Bareilly (Bareli).

—

Bhysical Aspects The District of Bareilly, though lying just below the last slopes of the Himalayas, forms itself a level plain, w’ith no greater variety of surface than that caused by the shifting channels of.

its

numerous

streams.

Hills or natural elevations nowhere break the the distinctions of upland and lowland are well marked, and the intervening terraces are everywhere conspicuous. The

general

level,

but

largest alluvial plain

is that of the Ramganga, which reaches in one place a width of 16 miles. Over the whole of this broad valley, the river has wandered at various times, fertilizing the land through w'hich it passed with rich deposits of vegetable mould. The difference in height between the lowlands and the central plain ranges from 10 to 25 feet, while the general elevation of the country rises gradually from

520 feet

above sea-level in the extreme south, near Fatehganj, to 658 on the farthest northern boundary, just beneath the Tarai. The

feet

upland does not consist of a dead flat, but is composed of gentle undulations, occasionally rising into rolling sandhills. As a whole, however, the District may be described as a level tract, intersected by numerous rivers and thickly dotted w'ith noble groves, which form