BAGH ELK HAND

tract of country in extreme E. of Central India Agency (24° 20’ N., 82° E.); W. part elevated plain; E. part hilly; traversed by E. Indian and Bengal-Nagpur Rys. Agency of same names contains twelve states; town, Palermo, Sicily. Pop. 11,500. Central Africa, in valley of river Shari, capital, Chekna; subject to Wadai; contains fertile level plateau; pop. principally negroes; rice, cotton, pastoral Fula and Arabs rear cattle. Pyréneés, France; sulphur springs, marble. Garonne, Pyrenees, France; sulphurous thermal springs. Pop. 7000. first applied to bath in palace at Constantinople, afterwards to prison probably adjoining), Fr. prisons which in 1748 replaced the galleys; abolished 1852 by Napoleon IIT.