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APPENDIX.<br />

Loc.u.rn.<br />

AUTHORITY.<br />

1803 N.W. Province <strong>and</strong> Col. B. Smith <strong>and</strong> Col. Etheridge's<br />

Bombay.<br />

Report.<br />

1807 Bombay Presidency. Colonel Etheridge's Report.<br />

1810 Ditto. Ditto.<br />

1812 Ditto. Ditto.<br />

1813 N. W. Province <strong>and</strong> Colonel B. Smith nnd Colonel<br />

Rajputana.<br />

Brooke.<br />

1819 N. W. Province. Co)onel B. Smith.<br />

1800-22 Bembay Presidency. Colonel Etheridge's Report.<br />

1825-27 N.W. Province. Co)onel B. Smith.<br />

1832 Ditro <strong>and</strong> Madras. Girdlellrone, e.nd Orilsa Famine<br />

Commissioners.<br />

IBlU<br />

1836<br />

Bombay Presidency.<br />

Ditto <strong>and</strong> Madras.<br />

Colonel Etheridge's Report.<br />

Ditro, e.nd Blue-Book Madras<br />

Fa.mine.<br />

A well·authenticated famine.<br />

Orissa Fa.mine Commissioners.<br />

1837<br />

1853<br />

1860<br />

1865<br />

1868-10<br />

1878<br />

N. W. Province.<br />

Madras.<br />

N. W. Province, Punjab,<br />

<strong>and</strong> Bombay.<br />

Ori_ <strong>and</strong> Bengal.<br />

N. W., Punjab, <strong>and</strong><br />

Rajputana.<br />

Bengl\l.<br />

It is worthy of notice that from 1837-38 to 1853-i.e.,<br />

,luring a period of fifteen year&-no famine or scarcity is<br />

recorded in India; while the nearest approach during<br />

the present century to such a lengthened immunity<br />

from these disasters is from 1813-14 to 1819, <strong>and</strong> from<br />

1853-M to 1860, being respectively five <strong>and</strong> six years.<br />

But the sins of onllsdion in such a list art: always greater

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