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
