NARSINHPUR, a district in the chief-commissionership of the Central Provinces, India, lying between 22° 45' and 23° 15' N. lat. and between 78° 38' and 79° 38' E. long., bounded on the N. by Bhôpâl state and by Sâgar, Damoh, and Jabalpur districts, E. by Seoni, S. by Chhindwârâ, and W. by Hoshangâbâd. It forms a portion of the upper part of the Nerbudda valley. The first of those wide alluvial basins which, alternating with rocky gorges, give so varied a character to the river’s course opens out just below the famous marble rocks in Jabalpur, and extends westward for 225 miles, including the whole of Narsinhpur, together with the greater part of Hoshangâbâd. The Sâtpurâ hills to the south are here a generally regular range, nowhere more than 500 feet above the plain, and running almost parallel to the river, at a distance of 15 or 20 miles. In the intervening valley, the rich level of black wheat land is seldom broken, except by occasional mounds of gravel or nodular limestone, which afford serviceable village sites. Along the foot of the boundary hills the alluvium gives -way to belts of red gravelly soil, rice and sugar-cane take the place of wheat, and forest trees that of mango groves....