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 312 SIT which form the natural drainage of the contiguous country, and in the eastern parganas specially there are numerous patches of land covered with that white mineral efflorescence called a reh," a combination of sulpoate of soda and other salts, which is deadly to vegetation, but which recent experiments have demonstrated can be dccomposed and got rid of by an improved system of tillage. Inundations. - The eastern parganas are flooded more or less entirely every year (vide descriptions of Tambaur, Kundri north and Kundri south); the inundations often ruining entire villages and always causing loss to the inhabitants by the destruction of their houses and cattle. At the present time (September, 1871) all that part of the country is under water, and for the past six weeks it has been with the greatest difficulty that the zamindars bave been got to come into Sitapur, or that the process- servers have been able to execute the orders of the courts. And it is said the greater part of the autumn harvest has failed. Subdivisions.-The collection of the demand is entrusted to the collector of the district, who is assisted in the duty by four nativesub- collectors or tahsildars, having their headquarters at the four tahsils into which the district is divided. These tahsils with their component par- ganas are as follows :- Tahsil. Parganas. Sitapur. Khairabad. I.--Sitapur Pírnagar. Kámkot. Hargám. Láharpur. Bári. Matván. II.-Bari Mahmudabad. Sadrpur. (Rundri south. Misrikh Aurangabad. Gundlaman, III.-Misrikh {Machhrehta. Chandra. Maholi, Kurauni. Biewen. IV.-Biswáa Tambour. Kundri north, Rivers, water communication, 300 miles.—Sitapur is well provided with rivers and streams---from the Gogra in the east to the Gumti in the west. The former is a very large river indeed, fordable nowhere during any part of the year, and in the raius having a width of from four to six miles. The Chauka.-Eight miles to the west is the Chauka, the second largest river in the district, and running into the Gogra at Bahramghat in the Bara Banki district. This ghát is connected with Lucknow by a railway, and thus a ready outlet to the west is provided for the grain from the east of Sitapur which borders on the Gogra. 44 ...