Volume 2

The East-India gazetteer; containing particular descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts, fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries, India beyond the Ganges, and the eastern archipelago; together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history, &c. of their various inhabitants / By Walter Hamilton.

  • Hamilton, Walter, M.R.A.S.
Date:
1828
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Credit: The East-India gazetteer; containing particular descriptions of the empires, kingdoms, principalities, provinces, cities, towns, districts, fortresses, harbours, rivers, lakes, &c. of Hindostan, and the adjacent countries, India beyond the Ganges, and the eastern archipelago; together with sketches of the manners, customs, institutions, agriculture, commerce, manufactures, revenues, population, castes, religion, history, &c. of their various inhabitants / By Walter Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    110 WYNE GUNGA DISTRICT. margin of the Runn, and there is a ferry established for the transport of passengers to the Cutch shore.— {Macmurdo, ^c.) Wrissa.—A town in the province of Mooltan, principality of Sinde, si¬ tuated on the west bank of the Indus, seventeen miles N.N.E. from Tatta; lat. 24°55N., Ion. 68° 25' E. WucKUTGHUR,—A town in the province of Malwa,pergunnah of Bud- nawur, from which town it is distant about seven miles south ; lat. 22° 57'' N., Ion. 75° 12'E. WuDWAN.—A considerable town and fort in the provinte of Gujerat, tributary to the Guicowar; lat. 22° 42' N., Ion. 71° 47' E. Ghee, hemp, and leather are brought to this place from Puttunwara in waggons, and carried hence to Bhownuggur,on the gulf of Cambay, from whence they are exported by sea.^—{Macmurdo, Walker^ 4'c.) WuLLUBGHUR.—A hill-foi’t ill the province of Bejapoor, thirty-seven miles S. by W. from Merritch; lat. 16° 20' N., Ion. 74° 38' E. This place was long held under thePeshwa by Purseram Bhow, and when he was defeated and slain, was seized by the Colapoor Raja, in whose possession it remained until 1804, when, by the interposition of the British govern¬ ment, it was restored to the Peshwa, and was transferred by him to one of his feudatories.—{MSS,, ^c.) WuRDA River fvai'aday granting prayers).—A river of the province of Gundwana, which rises in the per- gunnah of Mooltye, and flowing south joins the Wyne Gunga, at Seony, below Chanda. To the south of Hinghunghaut this river is about the size of the Kankaun, opposite to Nagpoor. It has many fine pools in the hottest weather, but is generally fordable at all seasons, excepting the very height of the rains. The streams and rivulets that have their source in the hilly tract west of Nagpoor, all flow north or south of the Wurda, which is navigable during the rains as high as Rattegong, above which point, except while the high floods prevail, the navigation is not practi¬ cable owing to a fall in the river at Natchengong. The Wunna river, which passes the large trading town of Hinghunghaut and falls into the Wurda, is navigable for boats some distance above the latter place in the height of the rains.—{Jenkins^ ^c.) WuRREE.—A village in the province of Ajmeer, pergunnah of Chittoor, which in 1820 belonged to the rana of Odeypoor, and contained about 100 houses. Wycodoo.—A town in the Carna¬ tic province, district of Tinnevelly, situated in lat. 8° 43' N., Ion. 77° 42' E. Wynaad fBynaduJ. — A small subdivision of the modern province of Malabar, situated above the Wes¬ tern Ghauts, between the eleventh and twelfth degrees of north latitude, and comprehending an area of about 1,250 square miles. Bynadu, or Wynaad, signifies the open countr}', but does not seem applicable to this locality, as, although situated on the tops of the mountains, it is in many places overrun with jungle and of difficult access. This territory is also named Nellcala and Wynatil, and produces the best cardamoms in India. Carula Verma, the present raja, (1800,) is sprung from a younger branch of the family and retains con¬ siderable power within his own limits. The village of Panamburt Cotta, or Wynaad, is situated in lat. 11°47' N., Ion. 76° 10' E. ,* forty miles E. from Tellichery. In 1800 the number of male slaves in this division, above the age of fifteen, amounted to 2,266j and the females to 2,264. The number of males below that age was 1,010, and of females 1,050. The total number of free inhabitants at that date amounted to 8,070 persons, Wyne Gunga District (Vana GangaJ.^A district in the province of Gundwana, belonging to the Nag¬ poor Raja, named from the Wyne