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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 790 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DAMOH , a See also:

TOWN

town and See also:

DISTRICT

district of See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

India, in the See also:

JUBBULPORE, or JABALPUR

Jubbulpore See also:

DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division of the Central Provinces. The town has a railway station, 48 m. E. of See also:

SAUGOR, or SAGAR

Saugor. Pop. (1901) 13,355• It has a considerable See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle-See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market, and a number of small See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries, such as See also:

WEAVING

weaving, See also:

DYEING (0. Eng. dedgian, dealt ; Mid. Eng. deyen)

dyeing and pottery-making. The DISTRICT OF DAMOH has an See also:

AREA

area of 2816 sq. m. Except on the See also:

south and See also:

east, where the offshoots from the surrounding hills and patches of See also:

JUNGLE (Sans. jangala)

jungle break up the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, the district consists of open plains of varying degrees of fertility, interspersed with See also:

low ranges and isolated heights. The richest tracts See also:

lie in the centre. The See also:

GENTLE (through the Fr. gentil, from Lat. gentilis, belonging to the same gens, or family)

gentle declivity of the See also:

SURFACE

surface and the porous See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of the prevailing See also:

SANDSTONE

sandstone formation render the drainage excellent. All the streams flow from south to See also:

north. The Sunar and the Bairma, the two See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal See also:

rivers, See also:

TRAVERSE

traverse the entire length of the district. Little use has been made of any of the rivers for See also:

IRRIGATION (Lat. in, and rigare, to water or wet)

irrigation, though in many places they offer See also:

GREAT

great facilities for the purpose.

Damoh was first formed into a See also:

SEPARATE

separate district in 1861. In 1901 the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population was 285,326, showing a decrease of 12 % in one See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade due to See also:

FAMINE (Lat. fames, hunger)

famine. Damoh suffered severely from the famine of 1896-1897. Fortunately the famine of 1900 was little See also:

FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt. A See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the See also:

INDIAN

Indian Midland railway was opened throughout from Saugor to Katni in See also:

JANUARY

January 1899.

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