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 SAR 317 Sareni held on Monday and Friday, Bhojpur and Chaula on Sunday and Thursday and Beni Madhoganj on Saturday and Wednesday. There is no fair held in this pargana ; climate is on the whole salubrious. During the king's reigu in 16 villages salt was manufactured to the extent of 97,884 maunds and the value of Rs. 77,457, but it has now been put a stop to. Mango and mabua are the principal trees. No others need be mentioned. SAROMANNAGAR Pargana* _ Tahsil SHAHABAD--District HARDOI.- A level and well watered tract of forty-two villages lying midway between Shahabad and Sándi along the south-eastern corner of the Shahabad tahsil, district Hardoi. The Garra flows along its western side separating it from pargana Pali; on the south and south-east the Sukheta divides it from Barwan; on the east it is bounded by Báwan, and on the north by Shahabad. The greatest length is 81 and breadth 6 miles. Its area is 36 square miles, of which 21 are cultivated. It is intersected by numerous streams; of these the Sukheta is the largest and most valuable. It runs in a loop round the north-eastern corner of the pargana, and then stretches southwards' through the heart of it till, after being joined by its principal affluents, the Gauria and the Kasrua, it flows along the south-eastern boundary for about four miles, approaching to within half a mile of the Garra at the southernmost extremity of the pargana. In the dry season the Sukheta is easily fordable except where it has been dammed up for irrigation. It is crossed by an old stone bridge at Saromanuagar; and at Dalelnagar, an encamping ground on the route from Shahjahanpur to Unao, there is a ferry during the rains. In the hot season these streams dry up, but by a system of dams water is kept in them till March, after which month irriga- tion is not required. The Carra, rising in the Himalayas, never fails. Along its bank lies a belt of rich Tarái villages, whose land always remains moist, so that wells are scarcely required. These villages are subject to floods, and after heavy rains the autumn harvest suffers, but the loss is in such seasons made good by the increased outturn of the spring crops. To the east of these villages, about a mile away from the river, on either side of the Sukheta and its affluents, but mainly along the western bank of that stream, stretches a belt of jungle villages two miles broad. In these the soil is generally firm and good, and almost entirely free from sand, but in some places it is very stiff and hard to work. The tillage in this tract is backward. The jungle is full of níl-gáe and wild hogs which do infinite damage to the crops. Rents are low and cul- tivators somewhat scarce. Though backward this tract is highly impro- vable, but its villages can never become so rich as those which lie along the Garra. To the east of this belt lies a strip of sandy, light villages, above and away from the petwork of streams that covers the rest of the pargana, but + By Mr. A. H. Harington, C.S., Assistant Commissioner,