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 510 MOH be dug, water lying not more than twenty feet from the surface, with an average depth of ten feet of water, The percentage of irrigation is fair ; it amounts to forty-five per cent. of cultivated land, but a great deal of this is from jhila, being nearly three-fourths. All the principal cereals are grown with sugarcane and poppy, and the usual vegetables immedi- ately round the villages. The rice crops grown round the jhíls near Nagram are specially fine. The area still culturable is said to be 27 per cent, but of this 14:6 are groves, and the rest is not of a good quality, being largely mixed with úsar. The population presses on the cultivated area at an average density of 1,108 per square mile, which is greater than in any other pargana, save Lucknow, of the district. The average holdings are from three and a quarter to five and a half acres, and rents vary from Rs. 4-14 to Rs. 5-6; strange to say the latter rate is paid by the Brahmans, who are usually treated with leniency. They are in considerable numbers, but Ahírs, Kurmis , and Pásis—paying rents of Rs. 5 to Rs. 6-10, and Rs. 4-14 per acre,-furnish the great bulk of the cultivators. The two former castes hold from four to four and a balf acres, the latter hold on an average little more than three acres. The Kachhis, who however are not very numerous, pay the high rate of Rs. 13-14 per acre. The high rates paid by the Brahmans may be partly due to the proprietorship of so many villages by Musalmans. As will be seen in other parganas, Musalmans generally exact higher rents than Hindus. The former hold eighty villages while the latter hold pinety. The summary assessment of this pargana was Rs. 1,56,510, that now fixed is Rs 1,79,740. The revenue rate will fall - Rs: 2 12 on the cultivated. 14 on cultivated and culturable, >> 1 7 0 throughout 32 The proportion of non-agriculturists in this pargana is high. It amounts to 46.2 per cent., and is due to the large villages and towns which the pargana contains and where they chiefly reside. In addition to Amethi, the population of which is 7,128, there are six other towns and villages, with a population from two to five thousand. They are Goshainganj, whose inhabitants number Mohanlalganj, with Nagrát Miraknagar 2,210 Salempur Samesi 4,823 and seventeen villages with a population of one to two thousand. They are Naiya Khurkápur, Adampur, Naubasta, Utráwán, Bakás, Bharauli, .64 > TRE 3,691 3,674 4,978 30 19 ->> 1 99 1 17 3) 2,366 9) 97