Mints
are now kept up at Calcutta and Bombay only. The Bias is a small
stream flowing into the Sunar river, and belonging to the Jumna river
system. The name is printed Beeose in the original edition.
5. Since the author's time the conditions have been completely
changed by the introduction of railways. The East Indian, Great
Indian Peninsular, and other railways now enter the Nerbudda Valley,
so that the produce of most districts can be readily transported to
distant markets. A large enhancement of the land revenue has been
obtained by revisions of the settlement.
6. Details will be found in the _Central Provinces Gazetteer_ (1870).
The references are collected under the head 'Iron' in the index to
that work. Chapter VIII of _Ball's Economic Geology of India_ gives
full information concerning the iron mines of the Central Provinces
and all parts of India. That work forms Part III of the _Manual of
the Geology of India_.
7. The soil of the valley of the Nerbudda, and that of the Nerbudda
and Sagar territories generally, is formed for the most part of the
detritus of trap-rocks that everywhere covered the sandstone of the
Vindhya and Satpura ranges which run through these territories.
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