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 BHUTAN. 6738 are Hindus,

1687 Musalmans,

4ir

169 Jains, 64

Sub-judge’s court and post-office.

Christians.

and 761

Parsi's,

Bhusawal

is

the head-

and of the chief revenue and of the Sub-division, and the junction station of the Nagpur branch of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. Until the quarters station of an Assistant Collector

police officers

opening of

railway,

this

it

was a petty

village

in

Khdndesh.

It

has since become an important centre, with large railway works, and

About 1200 workmen are reguemployed here, earning about ;^28oo a month in wages; about TOO of them are European or Eurasian engine-drivers and mechanics. The demand, occasioned by the residence of so many railway employes, a considerable European population. larly

has attracted shopkeepers of all descriptions, but their business to the supply of local wants.

The

railway premises consist of a

is

confined

handsome

The pump and

station, large

locomotive workshop, and houses for the employes.

water supply

is

brought from the Tapti by means of a steam

The

water is driven up to a large tank in the gardens near the on the top of a handsome two-storied building, the lower storey being used as a billiard room, and the upper as a railway library. Gardens have been laid out, and tree-planting encouraged to such an extent that Bhusdwal, formerly an open field, is now somewhat overgrown with trees. The village of Bhusawal is on the opposite side of the line from the railway buildings. There is a large rest-house outside pipe.

station, set

railway gate for natives, and opposite to it a small hotel for European travellers. To the north of the railway are the Government courts and offices, school-house, mamlatddAs office, railway magistrate’s

the

office, sub-jail, subordinate judge’s court, telegraph office, etc. Bhusawal town was acquired by the British Government with the rest of the

Warangdon (now Bhusawal) Sub-division a municipality

—

in 1861.

It

was constituted

May 1882. An independent

in

Bhutan. Himalayas, State in the Eastern between 26° 45' and 28° n. lat., and between 89° and about 92° e. long. It is bounded on the north by Tibet ; on the east by a tract inhabited by various uncivilised independent mountain tribes ; on the south by the British Districts of Goalpara and Kamrup of the Province of Assam, and the Bengal District of Jalpaigun'; and on the west by the independent Native State of Sikkim. Physical Aspects

.

—The whole of BhuHn may be

shortly described as

a succession of lofty and rugged mountains, abounding in picturesque

and sublime scenery. ‘The prospect,’ says Captain Turner, ‘between abrupt and lofty prominences is inconceivably grand hills clothed to their very summits with trees, dark and deep glens, and the high tops

of mountains lost in the clouds, constitute altogether a scene of extraordinary magnificence and sublimity.’

As might be expected from

physical structure, this alpine region sends out

numerous

rivers in

its

a