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226 APPEKDIX.<br />

than the sins of commission, <strong>and</strong> it is just possible that<br />

the records of some famines may have escaped my notice.<br />

I regret that I was unable to obtain a detailed<br />

historical sketch of these disasters in the Madras Presidency<br />

<strong>and</strong> in Rajputana. The latter country, I suspect,<br />

has been subjected to many more such calamities than<br />

are here recorded against it.<br />

NOTES, giving the authorities, &c., <strong>for</strong> the in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

wherefrom the table given in Chap.<br />

III., <strong>and</strong> here repeated (p. 233, 234), has been<br />

constructed :-<br />

Col. II, Note I.-Area of Bengal, 94,539 square miles.<br />

" Behar, 42,417 "<br />

136,956<br />

See Geddes, p. 439, approximate area<br />

"<br />

taken at<br />

100,000 square miles. Area here taken at<br />

130,000 square miles.<br />

CoL 5, Note 2.-Girdlestone names the districts affected ;<br />

the following are included in the list :-<br />

Moradahad,<br />

S.1I. I<br />

2,461 Brought <strong>for</strong>ward,<br />

S. II.<br />

1l,9li<br />

Hadaon,<br />

1,973 FUl'Tackabad,. 1,744<br />

&reilly, .<br />

2,373 Cawnpore,.<br />

2,33ti<br />

Shajehanpore,<br />

Etawah,<br />

1,723 Allahabad,.<br />

. 1,691 I' Fnttepoor, •<br />

2,76;',<br />

1,685<br />

Mynpoorie,<br />

. __ 1,696 T ota, 1<br />

20,347<br />

Carry <strong>for</strong>ward. 11,917

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