Statistical Account of Bhavnagar; being the Bhavnagar Contribution to the Kathiawar Portion of the Bombay Gazetteer

Panchal sudivisions of the peninSula ; on the south by the Arabian Sea ; on the east by the gulf of Kambay and a portion of the Dhandhuka parganah; and on the west by the Sorath Kathiawar and sub-divisions of the peninsula. [...] The princilpal ranges of hills are those of Sihor and the Babriadhar and the outlying hills of the Gir on the western border ; the highest is the Mituti hill which reaches over 1 000 feet. [...] The principal rivers are the Sukh Bhadar the Kalobhar the Glide the Shatranji the Bagad and the Malan but Rivers. [...] in whose hands the control as well as prtection of the imperial trade was vested and from the opposition also of the governor of Kambay Bhaysiughji perceiving this made a treaty with the Sidi whereby a share in the customs of Bhavnagar was granted to him ; after this the trade of Bhanagar began to increase and became very extensive and the town grew rich and populous. [...] In A. D..1771 the British Government entered into a treaty with the Nawab of Kambay in which the latter bound himself never on any pretence to molest the ancient possessions of Akherajji nor the town or port of Bhavnagar and never to enhance the dues hitherto levied at Gogha.27 At this time Talaja was in the hands of the Baria Kolis a daring race of pirates who had infested the shores of Sau