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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 21, p. 75.

RĀJHJCHI 75 of a qualified Assistant Surgeon and a trained English nurse. The Male Training College and the Barton Female Training College are also maintained by the chiefs of Kāthiāwār. In the military limits are a church and a clock-tower, the latter built by the late jam of Jamnagar. In the civil station are the lines of the Kāthiāwār Agency police, and the Rājkot Central prison. In the neighbourhood are the Rājkot State stud farm and dairy, and two large artificial tanks which supply Rājkot with water and also irrigate a few square miles of country. There is one cotton-ginning factory in Rājkot, but the prin- cipal trade is in grain and a local building stone. The river Aji, which washes the walls of the town, is spanned by two bridges and an aqueduct. The bridge used for foot traffic was built by the late Maharaja of Bhaunagar. The high school was attended in 1903-4 by 293 pupils. The Irish Presbyterian Mission has a central station here. The income of the cantonment funds in 1903-4 was Rs. 1,714. Rājmāchi (or ' the royal terrace').-An isolated double-peaked fortified hill on the main line of the Western Ghats, in the Maval thluha of Poona District, Bombay, situated in 180 5oN. and 730 24'E., about 6 miles north of the Bor Pass. It can be visited from Khandala or Lonauli. From the Konkan, thickly wooded at the base, its sides rise about 2,000 feet in steep rock slopes which, as they near the crest of the hill, grow gradually treeless and bare. Above the crest from the flat hill-top towers a rocky neck about Zoo feet high with at either end a short fortified tower-like head, the inner, Srivardhan (`luck's increase'), high and pointed, the outer, Manranjan ('heart gladdener'), lower and flat-topped. A tongue of land about 300 yards broad joins Rājmāchi to the rough plateau that runs along the crest of the Ghats north from Khandala. Across this tongue of land, half a mile from the foot of the central hill-top, is a strong stone wall 17 feet high and 8 thick, with a parapet loopholed for musketry, and with bastions at intervals pierced for cannon. A wide stretch of tilled land within this line of wall ensured the garrison a full supply of grain, grass, and fuel. From this upland, at a safe distance from the neighbouring heights, the central hill-top rises 300 to 400 feet high, a sheer, black, over- hanging cliff crowned by a battlemented peak, and towards the west strengthened by a double line of encircling walls. On the crest of the neck that joins the two peaks, fronting a small temple of Bhairav, stand three old stone lamp-pillars or dipmāls, and two small, quaintly carved stone chargers ready saddled and bridled for the god. The temple, which is little more than a hut, has three pairs of small, black stone images of Bhairav and his wife Jogeshvari, presented, according to tradition, by Sivaji, Sāhū, and Bāji Rao Peshwā. Srivardhan, the eastern and higher fort, less sheer to the south than to the north, is in places strengthened by a triple line of wall. On the south side, through VOL. XXI. F