MINES IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCES 351
Damarapad : Lat. 16° 35' 3" ; Long. 79° 30'. Golapalle (or Golapilly) : Lat. 16° 43' 30" ; Long. 80° 57'. 1
Kodavatakullu : Lat. 16° 40' ; Long. 80° 23' 30" (A.S. 75). Kollür (the
Gâni or Coulour of Tavernier) : Lat. 16° 42' 30" ; Long. 80° 5' ; right
bank of Kistnâ.
Madagalu ? (in Palnäd Täluk), 8 miles from the Kistnâ.
Malawaram : Lat. 16° 35' 3" ; Long. 79° 30'.
Moonaloor (or Moogaloor) : Lat. 16° 38' ; Long. 80° 23' 20".
Muléle (or Mullavilly) : Lat. 16° 41' ; Long. 80° 56'.
1 Oostapully (or Ustapalle) : Lat. 16° 40' ; Long. 80° 23' 30".
Partial: Lat. 16° 39'; Long. 80° 27'(A.S. 75).
(Ustapalle, or Oostapully which see.)
CENTRAL PROVINCES
Sambalpub District Sambalpur, town on the Mahânadï River, and some of the tributaries above the town. (The country of the Sabarai of Ptolemy.)
Chändä District Wairägarh
(the Bairagarh of the Âîn-i-Akbarï) : Lat.' 20° 26' ; Long. 80° 10'
(A.S. 73). Probably the Rosala of the Chinese pilgrims. (V. A. Smith, Early Hist, of India, 3rd ed., 285.)
WESTERN BENGAL
Lohärdagä District
Sänkh River, a tributary of the Brâhminï.
Sema,
on the Koel (the Soumelpour on the Gouel of Tavernier): Lat. 23° 35';
Long. 84° 21'. This was probably the Sambalaka, in the country of the
Mandatai, of Ptolemy.
BUNDELKHAND Panna Baghin,
Bargari, Brijpur, Etwa, Kamariya, Majgoha, Myra, Panna, Sakeriya,
Saya-Lachmanpur, Udesna, and many others around Panna town. It is not
known when these mines were first discovered. So far as I can
ascertain, Tieffenthaler was the earliest European visitor to them who
has left any record of them ; he appears to have been at Panna in 1765.
He says the diamonds found there could not compare either in hardness
or fire with those,of Orissa (Soumelpour ?) or of Raoulcound (i. e.
Rammalakota). There is no record of any exceptionally large diamonds
having been
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The three villages, so marked, were reserved by the Nizâm on account of
their diamond mines when the Kondupelle Circa r was ceded to the East
India Company in 1766.
