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continuous line from the bay to Kutpur Bluff, 12 miles distant from
Jegri. Mahuva, the ancient name of which was Moherak, stands on the
Malan river, 55 miles south-west of Bhaunagar. The town contains
a cotton-press, and is the scene of four annual fairs attended by about
5,000 people. On Jegri Bluff is a lighthouse, 99 feet high, with a fixed
white catadioptric light of the fourth order visible from 13 miles. The
soil of Mahuva is very fruitful and the mangoes grown here rival those
of Bombay.. The betel-vine is also cultivated. Coco-nut palms are
plentiful. Mahuva merchants are generally both wealthy and enter-
prising. The principal export trade is in cotton sent to Bombay.
There are good turners, who manufacture cots or dholias, cradles, and
many kinds of wooden toys.
Maibang.-Ruins in the North Cachar subdivision of Cachar Dis-
trict, Eastern Bengal and Assam, situated in 250 17' N. and 93° 9' 1,
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between two spurs of the Barail Hills on the north side o£ the water-
shed. When the Kachari Rajas were compelled by the aggressions
of the Ahoms and the Nagas to abandon their capital at Dimapur, and
move farther into the hills, they settled at Maibang ; but during the
first half of the eighteenth century they left that place, and after
crossing the Barail, established their court at KHASPUR in the plains
of Cachar. In 1882 a man named Sambhudan took up his abode at
Maibang, and announced that he had been commissioned by Heaven
to restore the Kachari kingdom. The Deputy-Commissioner, Major
Boyd, proceeded with a force of armed police to arrest him; but
Sambhudan evaded him and burnt the subdivisional station at Gun
jong, which had been left undefended. He then returned and attacked
the Deputy-Commissioner. The attack was easily repulsed, but Major
Boyd received a severe cut in the hand, which caused his death from
tetanus a few 'days later. Sambhudan was mortally wounded while
endeavouring to escape from the police. Maibang is now a station
on the Assam-Bengal Railway. Groves of bamboos and the remains
of irrigation works show that the place must originally have been
densely peopled, but few masonry ruins are now to be seen.
Maihar State.-A samzd State in Central India, under the Political
Agent in Baghelkhand, lying between 23° 59' and 24° 24' N. and
80° 23' and 8I° o' E., with an area of about 407 square miles. It is
bounded on the north by the State of Nagod; on the_ east by Nagod
and Rewah ; on the west by Ajaigarh ; and on the south by the
Jubbulpore District of the Central Provinces. Maihar is watered by
the 'Pons, which traverses it in a north-easterly direction. The tract
is composed mainly of sandstones of the lower Bandair (Bhander)
series, in great part concealed by alluvium. At Jukhehi in the south
of the State, the strike of the Kaimur range is displaced, producing the
only important gap in the whole length of the Vindhyans. Advantage
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