Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the sanitary state of the Army in India : with abstract of evidence, and of reports received from Indian military stations.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Sanitary State of the Army in India
Date:
[1864?]
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Credit: Report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into the sanitary state of the Army in India : with abstract of evidence, and of reports received from Indian military stations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Southern India, including Dec- can, Mysoor, &c. South-west Frontier of liengal, includ- ing Cnota- Nagpoor, Sir- goojah, l’ala- Jnow,Ramgurh, llazareebagh, Mynpat, and Ainarkantak. Nepaul. 1,340 ft. Amjherra, 1,890 ft. Saugor, 1,940 ft. Rhotasgurh, 700 ft. Sonar River, source, 1,900 ft. From the Vindhya range the surface has a generally gradual, hut in some places abrupt, descent ; as at Mokundurra, and the Bindyachal hills, where rivers occasionally fall over the brow in cascades. Sliahabad district very rocky and uneven. Tin and copper are found in Oodeypoor. In Bhopal the prevailing geological formation appears to be trap overlying sandstone. Minerals are few and unimportant. Water is very plentiful. The mineral resources of Bundelcund appear to be con- siderable. Supported as it were by a triangle formed by the Sautpoora or sub-Vrndhya on the N., W. Ghauts on the W., and E. Ghauts on the E.; the Sautpoora range constituting the base. Length, from Sautpoora River to Salem, about 700 m. ; breadth from Mahabulishwar to Sirgoojah, about 700 m. If Choota-Xagpoor be considered as part of this great table-land, it may be said to extend nearly 250 m. farther in a north-easterly direction. Highest parts, those nearest W. Ghauts, and in centre of Mysoor. Mahabulhhwar, 18°, 73° 45'; 4,700 ft. Source of Kistnah, 4,500 ft. Source of Godavery, 3,000 ft. Poona 2,823 ft. Source of Manjera, 3,019 ft. Rivers rising in ravines between spurs of W. Ghauts, wind their way through E. Ghauts across the Deccan, the slope being in that direction. Plains of Nagpoor, 1,000 ft.—slope to S.E. ; drained by Wein- Gunga, which falls into Godavery. Hydrabad, 1,800 ft. Secunderabad, 17° 20', 78° 33'; 1,837 ft. Beder 17° 53', 77° 36'; 2,359 ft. From the Wein-Gunga the surface rises towards N.E., where Rypoor, 21° 12', 81° 40', is 1,747 ft. Source of Mahanuddy, 2,111 ft. ; andKonkeir, 20° 16', 81° 33', 1,953 ft. Nundy-droog, highest in Mysoor, 4,856 ft. ; slope from hence on all sides,—S. to Bangalore, 3,000 ft. ; E. to plains of Carnatic—Chittoor, 1,100 ft ; X. to plains of Gootv, 1,182 ft. ; and those of Bcllary, 1,600ft. Colar, 13° 8', 78° 10' ; 2,800 ft. Mysoor town, 12° IS', 76c 42'; 2,450 ft. Seringapatam, 12° 25',’ 76° 45', 2,412,—from hence, there is a gradual rise to Coorg, where Yerajenderpetta is 3,399 ft, and Merkara, 4,506 ft. From Bangalore, descent to S. by rather abrupt steps to plains of Salem, 1,400 ft., and Coimbatoor, 1,483 ft. From Belgaum, 15° 50', 74° 36', 2,500 ft. there is a gradual fall to the E. Bellary plains, 1,600 ft. Gooty plains, 1,182 ft. ; Cuddapah town, 507 ft ; and E. part of Cuddapah district, 450 ft. Iiypogene schists, penetrated and broken up by prodigious outbursts of plutonic and trappean rocks, occupy by far the greater portion of the superficies of Southern India. The central part of the Deccan is composed of waving downs, which, at one time, present for miles a sheet of green harvests, but in the hot season, bear the appearance of a desert, without a tree or shrub to relieve its gloomy sameness. The seaward face of the table-land towards the W., though abrupt, is not precipitous, but consists of a succession of terraces or steps. On the Coromandel side the slope to the sea is gentle, exhibiting the alluvial deposits borne down from the higher portions of the table-land- Between 22° 30' and 24° 30' ; and easterly, from about 82° to 85°. Ciiota-Nagpoor, 3,000 ft. ; hills running E. and W., but of little elevation ; Sirgoojah, mountainous, rising 600 to 700 ft. above level of Chota-Nngpoor. Mynpat table-land, about 30 m. S.E. from Sirgoojah town ; area not ascertained—about 3,000 or 3,500 ft. Palamow dist., very mountainous—little known, llazareebagh town, 24°, 85° 54'; 1,750 ft. Slope of country to S., towards Sumbulpoor—X and E. parts of dist. very mountainous, but level, and even depressed towards Mahanuddy. Sumbulpoor town, only 400 ft. Orissa table-land then rises on the other side of Mahanuddy, in some places to 1,700 ft. backed by the chain of E. Ghauts. Arnark- antak, jungly table-land, 22° 40', 81° 50' ; 3,500 ft. The soil in the plains is generally fertile, producing abundant crops of wheat, barley, rice, pulse, excellent vegetables, cotton, and sugar-cane. The uncultivated parts are overrun with a coarse grass. A great part of the region is quite unknown to us. At the foot of the Himalaya range, between Himalaya and the Tarai ; 500 m long; E. to W., 160 m. broad ; area, 54,500 sq. m. The surface generally consists of valleys varying from 4,000 to 6,000 ft. above Bengal plains. Khatmandoo (in an oval-shaped valley 12 m. long), 27° 42, 85° 18' ; 4,628. Bhynturee, 29° 34', 80° 30' ; 5,615 ft. Slope to S. drained by Ghogra, G unduck, and Coosy. 1 he geological formation of the hill}' tract—limestone, hornstone, and conglomerate. Vegetable productions of must remarkable stateliness, beauty, and variety. Climate resembles that of southern Europe.
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