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, Son, and Mahanadi, as well as for those of the Bam and the Bima.