REPORT ON THE CANTONMENT OF SIRUR.

Inspected in October 1876.

     The Cantonment of Sirur—or, as it is called in the vernacular, Ghodnadi—is
situated in latitude 18° 48' 50" north, and longitude 74° 25' 35" east, and at an
elevation of 1856 feet above the sea, from which it is distant about 102 miles
in a straight line. It has been formed on the right bank of the River Ghod,
which falls into the Bhima River at Sangwi, a few miles to the north of Dhond.
It was formerly the head-quarter station of one of the subsidiary forces which
were cantoned here in 1813; but it is now only occupied by the permanent
head-quarters of the cavalry regiment, which, when raised, was called the
Poona Auxiliary Horse. The topography and physical geography of the
station have often before been described, and lately in a very interesting report
by Doctor Gordon, in medical charge of the regiment, which is published in the
Surgeon-General's Annual Report for 1874. l shall, therefore, in pursuance of
the plan I have adopted in reporting on other stations, confine my remarks
to those points which I think should be brought to special notice.

     2. The area of the station is stated to be about 565 acres; but that of the
regimental lines, including the hospital, covers only about 78 acres.

     The strength of the regiment is as follows:—

whilst that of the followers is as under:—

     The regimental lines have, unfortunately, been built along the northern
boundary of the Cantonment; the consequence being, that they are only separated
by the breadth of the road from the adjacent municipal town, over the sanitary
state of which, however, the Officer commanding at Sirur keeps a very watch-
ful eye.

     3. There are eight lines of pendalls, which face south-west and north-east.
On either flank the pendall is single; but the remainder are built back to back,