~Simla Hill States.~--The Deputy Commissioner of Simla is political officer with the title of Superintendent of nineteen, or, including the tributaries of Bashahr, Keonthal, and Jubbal, of 28 states with a total area of 6355 square miles, a population of 410,453, and revenues amounting to a little over ten _lakhs_ (L66,000). The States vary in size from the patch of four square miles ruled by the Thakur of Bija to the 388r square miles included in Bashahr. Only four other States have areas exceeding 125 square miles, namely, Bilaspur (448), Keonthal (359), Jubbal (320), and Hindur or Nalagarh (256). Excluding feudatories the revenues vary from Rs. 900 (or a little over L1 a week) in Mangal to Rs. 190,000 (L12,666) in Bilaspur. The chiefs are all Rajputs, who came under our protection at the close of the Gurkha War. The watershed of the Sutlej and Jamna runs through the tract. The range which forms the watershed of the Sutlej and the Jamna starts from the Shinka Pass on the south border of Bashahr and passes over Hattu and Simla. In Bashahr it divides the catchment areas of the Rupin and Pabar rivers, tributaries of the Tons and therefore of the Jamna, from those of the Baspa and the Nogli, which are affluents of the Sutlej. West of Bashahr the chief tributary of the Jamna is the Giri and of the Sutlej the Gambhar, which rises near Kasauli. In the east Bashahr has a large area north of the Sutlej drained by its tributary the Spiti and smaller streams. In the centre the Sutlej is the northern boundary of the Simla Hill States. In the west Bilaspur extends across that river. The east of Bashahr is entirely in the Sutlej basin. [Sidenote: Area, 448 sq. m. Pop. 93,107. Rev. Rs. 190,000 = L12,666.] ~Bilaspur.~--This is true also of Bilaspur or Kahlur (map, p. 284), which has territory on both banks of the river. The capital, Bilaspur, is on the left bank only 1455 feet above sea level. The present Raja Bije Chand, C.S.I., succeeded in 1889. [Sidenote: Area, 3881 sq. m. Pop. 93,203. Rev. Rs. 95,000 = L6233.]