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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 13, p. 206.

206 HOSUR TOWN the District. It is in the style of an English mediaeval castle, with turrets, battlements, a moat, ckc. It was purchased by Government in 1875 for Rs. 1o,ooo. Four miles south of the town, at Mattagiri, is the Hosfir Remount D6pdt, from which the Ninth Division of the army in India is supplied, with cavalry and artillery horses. This dates from 1828, and is in charge of a British officer assisted by a subaltern of the Army Veterinary department. The greater number of the horses are Australians bought from the importers at Madras. They are acclimatized and broken to their work at the dép6t. The place has a wonderfully English appear- ance, the grassy paddocks being surrounded with post-and-rail fences and entered by gates of familiar pattern, and much of the work on the farm is done by horses instead of bullocks. Hotgi.-Village in the District and tdluha of Sholdpur, Bombay, situated in 17° 36′ N. and 75° 58′ E., 9 miles south-east of Sholdpur city. Population (1901), 3,918. It is the junction of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway with the Hogi-Gadag section of the Southern Mahratta line. The village contains a dispensary belonging to the Southern Mahratta Railway. Hoti Mardan.-'Town in Peshawar District, North-West Frontier Province. See MARVAN. Howrah District (Habara).-Small District in the Burdwan Division of Bengal, lying between 22° 13′ and 22°, 47′ N. and 87° 51′ and 88° 22′ E., with an area of 510 square miles. Howrah, which is a separate magisterial charge, is for revenue purposes sub- ordinate to HOOGHLY DiSTRtcr, by which it is bounded on the north; its western and eastern boundaries are the Rdpnârayan and the Hooghly rivers, which separate it from Midnapore and the Twenty- four Parganas and meet at its southern angle. The District is intersected from north to south by the DAMODAR, which falls into the Hooghly opposite Faltd Point. There are many small streams and watercourses, the principal being Physical aspects the Kana Damodar, a tributary of the river of that . name, which rises near Tarakeswar in Hooghly Dis- trict, and falls into the Damodar at Aorta; the Saraswatï, at one time the main channel of the Ganges but now merely a branch of the Hooghly, which it leaves near TribenY and, after flowing southwards through Howrah, rejoins at Sankrail; and the GAIGHATA BAKSHI KHAL, which connects the Rtlpndrdyan and Damodar. The District is studded with depressions lying between the larger rivers, the most important being the Rdjapur marsh between the Hooghly and Damodar, which is now being gradually drained; towards the south the country lies so low as to require protection by costly Government and private embankments.