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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 14, p. 257.

RADI PRANT 257 va; hafehi sas rondi, poppy, ml, h--b,, tobacco, sugar- cotton, bhend,chillies, mharia, and other garden products. Poppy of great importance and c eyed 12,,62 acres m 1904-5, yielding on an average 1 s lb. of crude opium per acre. .~-1 -, 434x 7 S,ois . D -x0'9 .30, 3861 - 4•3rY 147a - K~ol afi- 7 ,BS Ro~73xx Vi1SPvr , g•6 x np,xBF NeFaava 9S rof 75. a>4 Vkvapar, ,7a 70,98 Vad9eli . 33x ,88 e ' -o, I KFaala x•6'. ,6463 li HSij 43SOS D;Lgam - a39 3I 9,541 46t . Atersumba jo a 5G s,s71 3- .. 8-t7 a,. . p~ x07 -aA.G x,fGa'~ x70 7-q ,,x76 _ _T-1 3,ot5 as 1,063 834,744 177 -n4.o 49,x37 . The spinning of cotton thread and silk and cotton-weaving are the chief industries. There may also be mentioned: embroidery o small scale I the manufacture of ornaments in gold, silver, and ivory, and of bete[nut cutters; knives, brass and copper utensils, toys, and pottery. The ,,be, of ginning factories is one being connected with a eving-mill. The chief centres of trade am Piitan,tnKadi, Mehsans,Visnagar, Vadnagar, and Sidhpur.the first rbeing the m important All these towns a connected by railway lines, by wh most the prdnt is ceptiomtlly well se-d. In addition to the main line of the RajputIna-MalwA Railway,hich passes from south to north, State lines diverge from Mehsana to Kheralu, Purse, and Vimmgam, and Gom Kalol to Kadj and Vij5pur. The Ahmadabad-Paramij line also se me places. Other lines are projected from Manned Road to Chaoasma, from Via-gar to Vijapur, and from Kheralu to Dab d.. The land revenue rose from 311 lakhs in 1881 to 358 Iakhs in 189,, and was 35'5 lakhs in rgot ; but in 1904-5, while the demand s, lakhs, the collections amounted to only 112 lakhs. A settle men t for fifteen year made between 1891 and 190., and parts of the pant are n w being resettled. The prdnt contains 36 mehrvdsi villages, which x oe formerly assessed on the cultivated area only, but settlement has now been made on the ordinary lines at greatly reduced rates. The average assessment varitsin different talahas from