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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.
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—
Lat. 22° 8' 15" N., long. 71° 57' 30" e.
population (1881) 58x3.
The
