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near jhils, but there is scarcely any sand. South of the road which runs through the villages of Kasta and Mitauli the villages are generally well cultivated, and some highly farmed by Kurmis and others of the better classes of cultivators to the north of the roads much of the area is under dense jungle, and on the west side, along the banks of the Kathna, are four grants, and one in the centre (Ganeshpur). Many of the villages are surrounded by the jungle of the grants and of other villages, and are represented as being very unhealthy at certain seasons, the residents being generally Ahlrs, Gaddis, and other inferior classes of cultivators, who are induced to settle in them for the grazing of their cattle which these villages afford. The jungles along the Kathna harbour chltal, nil-g4e, hog-deer, parha, and other smaller animals which do much mischief to the crops at night, so that precarious crops are raised only by incessant watching. The pargana comprises 73 villages, regularly demarcated, of which live are jungle grants and the remaining sixty-eight held as follows



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taluqdars 62 independent proprietors 4 Oovernmeat 2 68

But separate assessments have been made in sixty-nine villages. Out of the four non-taluqdari villages three have been released as revenue-free grants. Kasta itself is an ordinary sized village, much decayed and It has only 219 houses and a population of deserted of late years. The road from La1,165 souls, and is a place of no resort or importance. khimpur to Mitauli passes through the village. It has still much jungle on the west side and four outlying hamlets. The Government revenue is Ks. 37,850.

ELA.THNA River. ,

—A small

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rises from Moti-ka-Tal in the Shahlongitude 80° 21'. It flows in a southeasterly direction, and at about ten miles from its source it turns to the south, and for about two miles forms the boundary between the districts of Sh^hjahanpur and Kheri it then resumes its previous south-easterly direction and enters the latter district in latitude 28° 28,' longitude 83° 23'. Following the same course it flows through that district, having the parganas of Atwa Piparia, Magdapur, and Aurangabad on its right, and those of Haidarabad and Kasta on its left. Leaving Kheri it then enters the Sitapur district, and joins the Gumti on the left side of the latter in Its total length of course may be eslatitude 27° 20', longitude 80° 27'. timated at about 101 miles. It is not navigable, but might be made so for small boats. Its water is unwholesome owing to the vegetation on its sides, and it is little used for irrigation owing to the height of its banks.

jahanpur

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district, latitude 28°20',



KATIXRI* Pargana— Tahsil BilgrJlM—District Haedoi. —^A riverine tract of eighty villages lying along the right bank of the Ramganga and left of the Ganges between Fatehgarh and Kanauj. It is enclosed between parganas Pali on the north, Barwan and Sandi on the east, Kh&hatmau and Paramnagar (Farukhabad) on thfe west, and on the south-west gud south Bhojpur and Taligr^m (Farukhabad) across the Ganges. Its greatest »

By Mr. A. H, Harington, CS.,

Assiataut Commissioner,