history or of science, not to speak of 'good works of fiction'. 12. A 'dug-out' canoe is rather a shaky craft. When two or three are lashed together, and a native cot (_chârpâi_) is stretched across, the passenger can make himself very comfortable. The boats are poled by men standing in the stern. 13. _Ante_, Chapter 24, note 1. 14. This prince is not included in the authentic dynastic lists given in the Chandêl inscriptions. He was probably a younger son, who never reigned. The principal authorities for the history of the Chandêl dynasty are _A.S.R._, vol. ii, pp. 439-51; vol. xxi, pp. 77-90, and V. A. Smith, 'Contributions to the History of Bundêlkhand', in _J.A.S.B._ vol. 1 (1881), Part I, p. 1; and 'The History and Coinage of the Chandêl (Chandella) Dynasty' in _Ind. Ant._, 1908, pp. 114-48. A brief summary will be found in _Early History of India_, 3rd ed. (1914), pp. 390-4. Most of the great works of the dynasty date from the period A.D. 950-1200. 15. The long ridges of quartz traversing the gneiss are marked features in the scenery of Bundêlkhand. 16. The author always uses the phrase Central India as a vague geographical expression. The phrase is now generally used to mean an administrative division, namely, the group of Native States under the Central India Agency at Indore, which deals with about 148 chiefs and rulers of various rank. Central India in this official sense must not be confounded with the Central Provinces, of which the capital is Nâgpur. 17. On this lake theory, see _ante_, Chapter 14, note 13. 18. During a residence of six years in Bundêlkhand the editor came to the conclusion that most of the ancient artificial lakes were not constructed for purposes of irrigation. The embankments seem generally to have been built as adjuncts to palaces or temples. Many of the lakes command no considerable area of irrigable ground, and there are no traces of ancient irrigation channels. In modern times small canals have been drawn from some of the lakes. 19. The desolation of the ravines of the rivers of Central India and Bundêlkhand offers a very striking spectacle, presenting to the geologist a signal example of the effects of sub-aerial denudation. 20. This pretty custom is also described, in Tod's _Râjasthân_; and is still common in Alwar, and perhaps in other parts of Râjputâna (_N.I. Notes and Queries_, vol. ii (Dec. 1892), p. 152), It does not seem to be now known in the Gangetic valley. 21. Principalities, and the estates of the talukdârs of Oudh also descend to the eldest son. The author states (_ante_, Chapter 10, see text before note [10].) that the same rule applied in his time to the small agricultural holdings in the Sâgar and Nerbudda territories. 22. This statement is inexact; Hindoo daughters, as a rule, inherit nothing from their fathers; a Muhammadan daughter takes half the share of a son.