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Col. 5, Note 11.-1 have seen no official statement
saying definitely that such and such districts are
in the famine tract: a good deal is left to individual
fancy to determine what shoul(l be considered
as such. Sir B. Frere, in his publislledlecture
on the present fanline, attaches a table, "drawn up
by l'IIr Trelawny Saunders," which states the area
of the threatened districts of the lower provinces
at 72,830 square miles - aUlI of the threatened
division, Benares, of the North-West Province, at
15,556 square miles; or the total threatened area at
88,386 square, miles. Again, the • Daily News'
seems to consider that the area affected is 42,417
square miles (being the area of the various districts
composing the Behru' division, while the area of
Behar is given in official documents.--see Geddes,
p. 320-at 73,040 811uare miles). 1 have therefore
adopted for the present 60,000 square miles, as
being approxinlate.
CoL 6, Note I.-See the notes on' the official reports
and other documents concerning the famine, in
the Appendix to the Orissa Famine Comlllistiionera'
Report. ' Also, in Dr Hunter's 1st vol. of
• Annals of Rural Bengal,' and the Appendix
thereto.
CoL 6, Note 2.-See note 3, col. 5.
Col. 6, Notes 3 awl 4.-13,000,000 was the total population
affected in the Punjab and N orth-Western
Province, as given by Baird Smith. He writes that
the" western section" (p. 6), amounting t? 4,879,000,