8. The land revenue has been largely increased, and the resources and communications of the country have been greatly developed during the last half-century. The formation of the Central Provinces as a separate administration in 1861 secured for the Sâgar and Nerbudda territories the attention which they failed to obtain from the distant Government of the North-Western Provinces. Sir Richard Temple, the first Chief Commissioner, administered the Central Provinces with extraordinary energy and success. 9. Râjâ Chhatarsâl Bundela was Râjâ of Pannâ. The history of Chhatarsâl is related in _I.G._ (1908), vol. xix, p. 400, s.v. Panna State. In 1729 he called in the Marâthâs to help him against Muhammad Khan Bangash, and when he died in 1731 rewarded them by bequeathing one-third of his dominions to the Peshwa. The correct date of his death is Pûs Badi 3, Samvat 1788 (_Hamîrpur Settlement Report_ (1880), note at end of chapter 2). The date is often given inaccurately. 10. Chitrakôt, in the Bânda district of Bundêlkhand, under the government of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, and seventy-one miles distant from Allahabad, is a famous place of pilgrimage, much frequented by the votaries of Râma. Large fairs are held there. 11. The performance of miraculous cures at the tomb is not necessary for the deification of a person who has been specially feared in his lifetime, or has died a violent death. Either of these conditions is enough to render his ghost formidable, and worthy of propitiation. Shrines to such persons are very numerous both in Bundêlkhand and other parts of India, Miracles, of course, occur at nearly every shrine, and are too common and well attested to attract much attention. 12. These observations are as true to-day as they were in the author's time. Disastrous cases of over-assessment were common in the early years of British rule, and the mischief so wrought has been sometimes traceable for generations afterwards. Since 1833 the error, though less common, has not been unknown. 13. Since writing the above, I have seen Colonel Sykes's notes on the formations of Southern India in the _Indian Review_. The facts there described seem all to support my conclusion, and his map would answer just as well for Central as for Southern India; for the banks of the Nerbudda and Chambal, Sôn, and Mahânadî, as well as for those of the Bâm and the Bîmâ. Colonel Sykes does not, I believe, attempt to account for the stratification of the basalt; he merely describes it. [W. H. S.]