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BAXAJ^—BEAS. distributaries, capable of irrigating

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With

348,500 acres.

its

branches

commands the country between the Kao and the Dunauti, which much in need of irrigation. Baxar.-— Village in Unao District, Oudh. See Baksar. Baynes’ Hill. See Nundydrug.

it

— Considerable grain depot and mart Khulna — BU or marsh the S^tkhira Sub-division of Bayra Bayra.

in

rice

is

District,

Bengal.

in

Bil.

Khulna

covering an area of 40 square miles. Lat. 22° 30' to long. 89° 3' to 89° 8' 30" E. situated east of the Jamuna

District, Bengal,

22° 40' 45" N., river,



The

Buran pargatid.

in

unhealthiness of this

The

greater part of the bxl

—Village

Bazargaon.

large marshes.

covered with reed jungle.

is

in

fiscal division is

and other

attributed to the malaria generated by this

Nagpur

25 miles west of Nagpur.

Lat.

District, Central

Provinces

21° 8' 30" N., long.



about

78° 48' 45"

e.

Situated in a picturesque Population (1881) 1389, mainly traders. country, on the Bisnur route to Berar and Bombay, the village attained great prosperity; but since the opening of the railway, the traffic

the road has

become of

and school-house have

less

lately

A

importance.

been

To

built.

constructed about thirty years ago

reservoir,

by

substantial police station is a fine masonry and on the south a fort,

the west

much dilapidated, built about seventy years since by Dvarkoji Naik, a commander of 5000 mercenaries, and commissary-general under Raja Janoji of Nagpur.

Bazitpur.

—Town Maimansingh — One of the Five Rivers

See Bajitpur.

District, Bengal.

in

Beas {Bids).

‘

Lat. 31°

of the Greeks (Sanskrit,

1

of the Punjab, the Hyphasis 1' to 32° 22'3o" n., long. 75°4'

’

Rises in the snowy mountains of Kullu 13,326 feet above the sea, traverses the State of Mandi, and enters Kangra District to 77° 16' 45" E.

at

Sanghol on

During the early part of

eastern frontier.

its

its

course

Forms the main channel for the averages 125 feet to the mile. drainage of Kangra, and flows here in a meandering westerly course the

fall

through

hilly country,

with a

fall

the

into

1000

plains,

feet.

of

feet to the mile.

7

Elevation at

MinhdX ghdi, where it debouches Near Reh in Kangra District the river

Sanghol, 1920 feet above sea level



at

divides into three channels, which reunite shortly after passing Mi'rthal.

During

many

its

lower

hill

of which the

course the Beas

is

crossed by numerous

means of communication

ferries, at

consist of inflated skins

On

meeting the Siwalik Hills in the District of Hoshiarpur, sweeps sharply northward, to form the boundary between After bending round the base of the that District and Kangra. {dardis).

the

river

Siwaliks,

it

takes

a southerly direction, and divides the Districts of

Hoshiarpur and Gurdaspur. the uplands of the Punjab

I

In this plain,

a

portion of strip

its

course

of low alluvial

through

soil fringes