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inspector in 1855, each square mile should yield 6 h millions of tons of iron ore, capable of producing in pig iron no less than x, 600, 000 tons,

‘

equal to the

make

of eight furnaces, at 70 tons per week, for a

period, in round numbers, of rather serious difficulty in the

way of the

The whole

more than 59

The

years.’

only

manufacture of iron

profitable

is

a Report published in 1856 by iIr. David Smith, Government iron and coal viewer, who had been deputed to report on the iron deposits in Bardwan District, and on the suitability of the local coal for the manuthe scarcity of

flux.

The

lacture of iron.

quoted

carefully discussed

is

Barunibunta.

—

Hills

District.

in

portion of his report referring to this field

the Statistical Account of Bengal, vol.

fully in

range in the jungle,

subject

in

Cuttack

They

are

District,

iv.

pp.

Bengal



1

is

25-133.

the

densely covered with

highest

primitive

and the surrounding country is inhabited by the aboriginal Principal peak, Mah.vvinyaka, with Sivaite temples

tribe of Savars.

and images.

Barur (JVaruA). Choraman river, 65 long. 77° 46' E.



— Town miles

in

Amraoti

District,

east of Ellichpur.

population (1881) 6607, of

Lat.

whom

Berar 21°



8'

on

the

30"

n.,

5853 are Hindus,

Houses mostly flat646 Musalmans, and 108 Jains. Market on Sundays. Trade in cotton, turmeric, and molasses.

chiefly Mails,

roofed.

The temples buildings

to

Mahadeo and Ramchandra

— police

station,

Public

are interesting.

rest-house for travellers.

Government and

private schools.

Madras — Estate in Ganjam Land revenue, ^780. Barwa (Bdruva). — Town and port partly

Barwa.

District,

Presidency.

Area, 10

square miles.

situate in the estate of

Barwa, Ganjam District, Madras Presidency. Lat. 18° 52' 40" N., long. 84° 37' 35" E. ; population (1881) 4298, all Hindus, 24 per cent, of Situated at the the working portion being fishermen and boatmen.

southernmost

limit

of the Uriya countr)’.

Exports, chiefly of copra

imports, ;^6x6. and copra oil, valued in 1880-81 at Barwai. Pargand of Indore State in Nimar, under the Bhopawar Agency of Central India. This pargand formerly yielded a revenue of ^7000 from 20 villages. In 1824, the revenue amounted to little more The town of Barwai is situated about a mile north of than ^^2300. the Narbada (Nerbudda), and 32 miles east of Mahesar, the lands about it are extremely fertile, and the town being a station of the RajputanaMalwa railway, is rising in importance, and being restored to its former Transferred to Holkar in 1867, together with Dhargaon, condition. Khasrawada, and Mandlesar. Barwala. Town in Ahmadabad District, Bombay Presidency on the left bank of the river Utauli, 80 miles south-west of Ahmadabad.

—

—

Lat. 22° 8' 15" N., long. 71° 57' 30" e.





population (1881) 58x3.

The