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2 other three Districts, namely, Shahpoor, Jhelum and Rawul Pindee, the
3 average is very low, ranging from 70 to 100 persons per square mile ; but,
4 the former is in the. heart of the central waste, and the two latter are
5 extremely rugged and 'raviny. There is exactly the same fluctuation in
6 the assessment, that of Goojerat being at a tolerably high rate, and of
7 the other three low. In the Mooltan Division the low averages, viz., 73,
8 44 and 74 persons per square mile, show a very sparse population ; but
9 that part of the country is notoriously nothing more than one vast
10 wooded wjld, except round Mooltan and its Canals, there is but little
11 cultivation. The assessment however falls at a higher rate on cultiva-
12 tion than might be expected ; the reason is that the nomad: people have
13 various pastoral resources besides agriculture. In the Leia Division the.
14 average in Khangurh is fair, viz., 205 persons per square mile, that Dis-
15 trict being situated on the apex of the Sindh Sagur Doab, close to the
16 junction of two great rivers, and therefore for the most part cultivated.
17 In;the Leia, Dehra Ghazee Khan, and Dehra Ismael Khan Districts, the
18 averages, viz., 50, 59 and 87 persons per square mile, respectively, are
19 low, but then the former contains a sandy desert, and the two latter
20 consist of wild Trans-Indus Frontier. Lastly, in the Peshawur Division—
21 it is seen that the Peshawur Division, which comprises (among other
22 items of area) one fertile valley, has 193 persons to a square mile ; while the
23 mountainous District of Kohat has only 35. The above considerations °
24 may, it is hoped, aid in strengthening a. belief as to the general fidelity of
25 the Census.
26 19. The most thickly and the most thinly-peopled Districts in the
27 Punjab may be contrasted as below, with corresponding Districts of other
28 parts of India :—
29 Thickly-peopled Districts.
30 PUNJAB. |N.W.PROVINCES.| BENGaL. MADRas. | BOMBAY.
31 ee, ne eee nen
32 ere0 Persons per square | Persons per square | Persons per square
33 P sd square] Persons 8 pox aeare mile, at nile.
34 Uaball - -soolpoane, - - - se[Borimam: = - eel tinier - - qelgach * <> > go
35 Jullunder,- - 618|Jounpoor, - + 787] 2 i ge Lem aren eo. gee proacti; at 7 ee
36 Umriteur, - - es Ghazeopoor, pet pee eangpoor, ~ 2 619 Aree OPO» 995| Relgaum,- _ | bets
37 Seale - 475 [Dane 2: 553] Pabme ~~ - - 656 ]Chingleput, - 214/Dkarwar, - =~ 96
38 Agra, : adras, esti-? 96 616] Rutnag
39 om, > 537 mated, aa } 36 bo herry, - 167
40 a pg geen lO Oe OTT NG RT SNR