Notes: 

1.  The Archaeological Survey is engaged in unceasing battle with the pipal seedlings.

2.  This proposition is too general.

3.  The Hiliya, or Haliya, Pass is near the town of the same name in the Mirzapur district, thirty-one miles south-west of Mirzapur.  A bilingual inscription, in English and Hindi, on a large slab on the bank of the river, records the capture of the fort of Bhopari in 1811 by the 21st Regiment Native Infantry.  The tank described in the text is at Dibhor, twelve miles south of Haliya, and is 430 feet long by 352 broad.  The full name of the builder is Sriman Nayak Manmor, who was the head of the Banjara merchants of Mirzapur.  The inscription on his temple is dated 23 February, 1825, A.D.  ‘I suppose’, remarks Cunningham, ’that the vagrant instinct of the old Banjara preferred a jungle site.  No doubt he got the ground cheap; and from this vantage point he was able to supply Mirzapur with both wood and charcoal.’ (A.S.R., vol. xxi, pp. 121-5, pl. xxxi.)

4.  The new road passes through the Katra Pass.  The pass via Dibhor and Haliya, which the author calls the Hiliya Pass, is properly called the Kerahi (Kerai) Pass.  Both old and new roads are now little used.  The construction of railways has altogether changed the course of trade, and Cawnpore has risen on the ruins of Mirzapur.  Lalu, Nayak’s ’grandson, died in comparative obscurity some years ago, and only a few female relatives remain to represent the family—­a striking example, if one were needed, of the instability of Oriental fortunes.’ (A.S.R., vol. xxi, p. 124, quoting Gazetteer.)

5.  Within a few miles of Gosalpur, at the village of Talwa, which stands upon the old high road leading to Mirzapore, is a still more magnificent tank with one of the most beautiful temples in India, all executed two or three generations ago at the expense of two or three lakhs of rupees for the benefit of the public, by a very worthy man, who became rich in the service of the former Government.  His descendants, all save one, now follow the plough; and that one has a small rent-free village held on condition of appropriating the rents to the repair of the tank. [W.  H. S.]

The name Talwa is only the rustic way of pronouncing ‘tal’, meaning the tank.  Gosalpur is nineteen miles north-east of Jabalpur.  Two or three lakhs of rupees were then (in eighteenth century) worth about 22,000 pounds to 33,000 pounds sterling.

6.  India, except on the frontiers, has been at peace since 1858, and much revenue has been spent on the duties of peace, but the power of combination for public objects has developed among the people to a less degree than the author seems to have expected, though some development undoubtedly has taken place.