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2 densehess or sparseness of the population might be known. The atten-
3 tion of the District Officers was duly drawn to this point, in regard to
4 which, however, considerable diversity prevails, In the North-Western
5 Provinces the records of the Revenue Survey and Settlement furnished
6 the best possible statistics, not only as to the total area of every District,
7 and of.every Estate, but also as to the main classification of the land,
8 such as land assessed with revenue, land exempt from assessment, cul-
9 tivation and waste, &. The Punjab at present does not possess equal
10 advantages in this respect, and it possessed still less at the period of the
11 Census, The Settlement and Survey statistics were indeed available for
12 the three largest Divisions, namely, the Cis and the Trans-Sutlej States,
13 and the Lahore Division: in these, therefore, there remained nothing to
14 be desired. Similar statistics were partially available in certain portions
15 of the Jhelum Division. In all the villages of this Division also there
16 had been rough native measurements of the cultivated land, and in one
17 impértant tract, namely, the Upper Sindh Saugor Doab, lying North
18 of the Salt Range, there had been a, first-rate Topographical Survey.
19 Here therefore the village records could furnish the details of cultivation,
20 and the Topographical Survey the total area, In the: Mooltan Division
21 there had been rough native measurements of cultivation, but there had
22 been nothing like a survey of the expansive wooded wastes, in propor-
23 tion to which the cultivated and inhabited area is but a mere fraction.
24 A Revenue Survey of these tracts was at that period commencing, and
25 has since been in progress. For the purposes of the Census, however,
26 the superficial contents of this wide space were approximately calculated
27 from the standard maps in use, such as that prepared by Captain
28 Thuillier, Deputy Surveyor General, In the Leia Division there had
29 been for the most part a rough native measurement of cultivation, but
30 not of the uncultivated area, which in this Division also is very great.
31 For the extremity of the Upper Derajat, however, a good military survey
32 had been effected, and for the lower extremity the survey conducted in
33 the Canal Department was capable of supplying some statistical data,
34 In the Peshawur Division there had been no measurements of cultiva-
35 tion, but there had been good Topographical Surveys. The mountain-
36 ous District of Huzara had been excellently surveyed by the Great
37 Trigonometrical Survey Department. The Districts of Peshawur and
38 Kohat had been surveyed, though with less accuracy of detail, for Mili-
39 tary objects. Other maps and surveys had also been partially made in