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 LUC 331 coin formerly extensively current in the neighbourhood, and weighing 270 grains troy; the paseri then should be 112 times that weight, or 30,240 grains, equal to two modern sers and eight tolas. The baniáns, however, seeing their opportunity when the change of weight occurred, announced that the paseri was exactly equal to two sers; they therefore substituted two modern sers for the old paseri weight, still the unit of account, and for a considerable time, till price adjusted itself, they made a modest biit certain gain. The present Government bígha was largely used in Lucknow prior to annexation, and is now nearly exclusively adopted. The reckoniug adopted was --five cubits (báth) and a band breadth (mutthi)* make one láth; eight feet, twenty of these, or 160 feet, the side of a square bígha. As a matter of fact, tho bigha is a square of 165 feet, so when any fresh measurements are made in this primitive fashion the tenant gets a little less than he bargained for. Local markets, manufactures, trade.—There are weekly, or more often bi-weekly, bazars in nearly all the large villages, at which the population of the neighbourhood attend with their agricultural produce. Sometimes they are only khandsár-bhandsár, bángi bazárs, or wholesale bazars, to which samples are only brought, and the business done on the sample. The larger bazars are called the khandsár or wholesale bazars, where sugar and large stores are sold (khánd, sugar; bhánd, large earthen pot for storing grain). The chief bazars in the district are Mirzaganj in Malibabad, and Gosháínganj in Mohanlalganj pargana, and the Lucknow city markets. I have not thought it advisable to print the detailed price lists or bazar sales in this district; they are obviously full of errors. Edible grains are valued all round at Rs. 2-8-0 per maund, a rate which wheat only will reach. Again, more obscure errors are met with : in Gosháínganj the sales of English and country cloths are recorded at Rs. 7,000 and Rs. 14,000 respectively. This would be an important statistic if true, but it is ren- dered improbable by the statement in the text that English cloths are used almost exclusively; and on inspecting figures of Mohanlalganj, a simi- larly situated bazar, English and country cloth sales are recorded respec- tively at Rs. 1,500 and Rs. 400. In Nagrám, a corn market, the grain sales are recorded at only 12,000 maunds. This quantity would not feed the population of the town itself, which is 4,900; and at the very short allowance of 10 chhatáks of flour per head, or, say, five and a half maunds per annum, would require nearly 30,000 maunds of grain for its own consumption, without leaving any balance for exportation. Manufactures.- Manufactures are at very low ebb. and, save in the city of Lucknow, scarcely exist. It can hardly be otherwise, where the wants of a people are limited to their barc necessities. The arts and mechanics are represented by the village carpenter and blacksmith, the potter and chamár. In the larger towns are the weavers, dyers, bangle-makers, brass-workers, and all the various dealers in food. The weavers, no doubt, The mutthi is a popular equivalent for half an Engiish foot; it is measured by closing the four fingers and extending the thumb. A mutthi is the distance from the kauckle of the little finger to the extremity of the thumb.