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 MIS-MIT 499 whom is 98. This is a very remarkable feature of the place, which is a very hot-bed of Brahmanism, The tank above described has in its centre a well called Saraset, and it is here that the parkarma or “round of pilgrimages" ends. The pilgrims commence their journey at Nímkhár; the route being as follows Nímkhár Harayya, in Hardoi district, Sakin ditto. Dabi ditto. Qutubnagar and Dcogkon in Sitepur. Mirúra ditto. Kursun ditto. Surgawán ditto. Nimkhit (again). Barebci. and finally to Misrikh, where they halt six days and then go home. The camping ground at Misrikh is good, though the monkeys are annoying. "Misrik, a few miles from this, and one of the places thus consecrated, is celebrated as the residence of a very holy sage named Dudeej. In a great battle between the deotas and the giants the deotas were defeated. They went to implore the aid of the drowsy god Brimha, upon his snowy mountain top. He told them to go to Misrik and arm themselves with the bones of the old sage Dudeej. They found Dudeej alive, and in excellent health; but they thought it their duty to explain to him their orders. He told them that he should be very proud indeed to have his bones used as arms in so holy a cause ; but he had unfortunately vowed to bathe at all the sacred shrines in India before he died, and must per- form his vow. Grievously perplexed, the deotas all went and submitted their case to their leader, the god Indur. Indur consulted his chaplain, Brisput, who told him that there was really no difficulty whatever in the case; that the angels of all the holy shrines in India had been estab. lished at and around Neemsar by rimha himself, and deotas had only to take water from all the sacred places over which they presided dilemma. They did so, and the old sage, expressing himself satisfied, gave up his life. In what mode it was taken no one can tell me. The deotas armed themselves with his bones, attacked the giants forth with, and gained an easy and complete victory. The wisdom of the orders of drowsy old Brimha in this case is as little questioned by the Hindoos of the present day as that of the orders of drunken old Jupiter was in the case of Troy, by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Millions, wise in their generation, have spent their lives in the reverence of both."-Sleeman's Tour in Oudh, Volumn 2, pages 5-6. MITAULI–Pargana KASTA—Tahsil Muhamdi-District KHERI.—This village is situated on the left of the road from Lakhimpur to Maikalganj, and at a distance of about two miles to the east of the Kathna, being sur- rounded by large groves of mango trees and by cultivated land. There are