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 118 KAT- KAU and other favours mark the gratitude of the British Government for his loyal aid in the hour of need, KATRA MEDNI SINGH—Purgana PARTABGARH-Tahsil PARTABGARH -- District PARTABGARH. This village was founded by Medni Singh, the brother of the Rája of Partabgarh. Tlie river Sai is two miles off, and Bela station four. There is a great masonry tank here made by Ráni Suján Kunwar, wife of Rája Chħatardhári Singh. This is the largest tank in Oudh, but is useless, having fallen into bad repair :- Population : 1,917 845 Musalmans. Hindus. I. Total 2,762 d. There are seven temples to Mahadeo and two to Párasnátlı, also five places of Moslem worship. The grain cold in the bazár reaches the annual value of Rs. 14,000. There is a fair in the month of Kuár at which 12,000 people assemble. KAUNDHA *-Pargana BAWAN-Tahsil HANDOI-District HARDOI.-- Kaundha (population 2,186, chiefly Chamárs), an agricultural village of 282 mud houses, five miles north-west from Hardoi, on the Shahabad road, in par- gana Báwan, tahsil and district Hardoi. Market days Mondays and Fridays. A village school was established in 1867; average number of pupils 47. Kaundha is owned by Chamar Gaurs whose ancestors dispossessed the Thatheras in the latter days of the Kanauj. kingdom. The Gaurs of Kaundha are notorious for contumacy and evil livelihood. In the Nawabi they were always in trouble. In 1841 they killed the son of Maulvi Farid- nid-dín, Chakladar of Gopamau. In retaliation their village was burnt. They are a refractory, quarrelsome, ill-conditioned set, their one redeem- ing quality (owed probably to the fact that they are Rajputs in name rather than in reality), is that they do not murder their daughters. KAURIALA River.---This river (in Thornton's Gazetteer Kurnalli) rises in Thibet in latitude 30° 43', longitude 80° 47', flows through Naipál generally in a south-easterly direction for 213 miles till at the junction of the Mohán it enters the province of Oudh, dividing Kheri and Bahraich. It bursts through a deep gorge in the lower range of the Himalayas at Shisha Páni (the crystal waters), eighteen miles north of the Mohán; at this place it is about 300 yards broad, the water of great depth, and the current slow, about one mile an hour. Precipitous mountains rising about 2,500 feet shut it in closely, and the descent is so abrupt that there is no space even for a footpath; landslips on each side have scarped off the hills, so that few trees and little brushwood even is left. Gigantic rocks, which have either been torn away in avalanches, or have been carried down in glaciers at some remote period, cncumber the banks, the edges of the channels; one or two of them are regarded with some reverence by the natives, but there is no such veneration or superstitious concourse as attend many of the other rivers when they debouch from the Himalayas. A little beyond Shisha
 * By Mr. A. H. Harington, C.S., Assistant Commissioner,