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 NIG 17 which are made in large quantities in Newalganj, where a large colony of Thatheras (braziers) has established itself. The climate of the place is healthy, water good, and scenery tolerable. The remains of an enclosure built of solid masonry round the town and its gateway arc historical features. The Machberia gate contains the Government school. There is also an old sarde; it boasts of three temples to Mahadeo and eight mosques. A fair is annually held on the day of Dasahra, the 10th of the lunar half of Jeth (May-June), having an attendance of not more than 500 people. At the west end of Newalganj is the police station where a force of 12 policemen is kept up, who have the whole of the pargana to look after. The station is not very centrically placed. The total number of inhabi- tants is 3,728, and the houses 725, but none are of masonry. The inhabi- tants are chiefly Hindus, and largely made up of braziers, Baniáns, and Brahmans. There are of these classes 77,129, and 91 families respec- tively. The rest consist of food and vegetable-dealers, Bhurjis (grain- parchers), Halwais (confectioners), Ahírs, Cherdsmen), Telis (oil-men), and Chamárs (tanners). The population amounts to 4,028; Hindus being 3,618, and Musalmans 310. The place is a thriving centre of trade. NIGHASAN Pargana*_Tahsil NIGHASAN--District KHERI-Pargana Nighásan has been quite recently constituted. It consists of the Trans- Chauka portion of the old pargana of Bhúr; like that pargana it somewhat resembles a wedge in shape, lying from west to east, with the narrow end at the west, and the broad end at the east. On the north lies pargana Khairigarh, which is separated from Nighásan by the river Suheli or Sarju, which ilows from west to east with a very winding course of about 45 miles from Dudhua Ghát, where it enters the pargana to Shitábi Gbát, where it fows into the river Kauriala. The length of Nighásan, however, is only on the northern side 35 miles from east to west. On the south lies pargana Bhúr, which is separated from Nighásan by the river Chauka, which has a tolerably straight course of about 30 miles. The length of Nighasan on the southern side from east to west is 26 miles. On the west side Nighásan touches Palia, which till recently belonged to the district of Sháhjahanpur in the North-West Provinces. A straight line eight miles in length going due north and south from the Sarju to the Chauka, and marked by masonry pillars, denotes the boundary between the two parganas, which was also for about 53 years the boundary between British India and the kingdom of Oudh. On the east Nighásan marches with pargana Dhaurabra, and is 14 miles in breadth from the Chauka at Pachperi Ghát to the Sarju; at Sbitábi Ghát there is no natural boun. dary, and the line of demarcation is irregular, and about 18 miles in length, This pargana forms a part of the low plains lying between the great rivers and the mountains which are called the Ganjar. It nearly all lies in the tarai of the rivers Chauka and Sarju; there is some high land → By Mr. J. C. Williams, c.S. 3