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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 18, p. 398.

398 NAR WAR TOWN scarf. Narwar formerly produced a considerable quantity of crude iron, smelted from the magnetic iron ore abounding in the neighbour- hood; but this industry has now decayed. A State post office, a school, a dispensary, and a police station are situated here. Narwar State (r).-Mediatized chiefship in the Gwalior Residency, Central India. See PARON. Narwar State (2).-Thakurdt in the MALwX AGENCY, Central India. Nasarpur.-Town in the Tando Alahyar taluka of Hyderabad District, Sind, Bombay, situated in 25° 31' N. and 68° 39' E. Popu- lation (1901), 4,511. Nasarpur was formerly famous for its weaving industries, and cotton goods are still manufactured in some quantity on hand-looms ; but the trade of the place is insignificant. The town is of very ancient date, and is said to have been built in A.D. 989. The municipality was constituted in 1860, and had an average income of about Rs. 6,ooo during the decade ending 19or. In 1903-4 the income was Rs. 6,ooo. The town contains a courthouse, a dispensary, and a boys' school. Nasik Agency, The.-This consists of a single petty State lying in the north-west corner of Nasik District, Bombay. See SURGANA. Nasik District (Nasica of Ptolemy).-District in the Central Divi- sion of the Bombay Presidency, lying between r9° 35' and 20° 53' N. and 73° 15' and 74° 56' E., with an area of 5,850 square miles. It is bounded on the north and north-east by the District of Khandesh ; on the south-east by the Nizam's Dominions ; on the south by Ahmad- nagar ; and on the west by Thana District, the territories of Dharampur, Surgana, and the Dangs. With the exception of a few villages in the west, the whole District is situated on a table-land at an elevation of from 1,300 to 2,000 feet above the sea. The western portion, from north Physical to south, called Dang, is generally much divided aspects. by hills and intersected by ravines, and only the simplest kind of cultivation is possible. The eastern portion, called Desh, is open, fertile, and well cultivated. Except the line of the Western Ghats, which run north and south, the general direction of the hills is from west to east, the higher portions being in the west. The SATMALA Or Chandor range of hills forms the watershed of the District, dividing the valley of the Girna from that of the Goda- vari. It stretches from Peint east into the Nizam's Dominions, and is crossed by several fair passes. The most important of these, which takes its name from the range, is traversed by a first-class bridged and metalled road. East of Rahudi, the Chandor range ceases to be a barrier. Its chief peak, DHODAP, is 4,741 feet high. Several of the minor peaks are of religious and historic interest. A .low