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 SUL 409 but are not commonly grown ; lettuces and cress last during the greater portion of the year. The vine and the strawberry have been cultivated with considerable success, the pine apple grows, but has never yet bome fruit, whether it is capable of being made to do so is, I think, an open question. There are lechi, apple, and pear trees in the Sultanpur gardens, but their fruit is of little value. The orange, lemon, guava, and custard apple, the peach, pomegranate, the plantain, and the kamrak are more common. They are to be met with in private gardens all over the district, into which, indeed, many kinds not only of fruit, but of vegetables also-have already found their way. It is probable that with these examples of the possi- bility of successful cultivation before their eyes, the more skilful agricultural castes will soon venture to make the experiment of field cultivatiou with many of the more hardy vegetables. The potato is alrcady ceasing to be uncommon, I have seen enclosed fields of in Mohanganj, Chánda, and Isauli. Some classes, however, are said to have a prejudice against it. Minerals.-Kankar, a carbonate of lime, containing silica and oxide of iron, is the only mineral production of the district, in nearly every part of which it is found in great abundance. It lies at a distance of from a few inches to 3 or 4 feet from the surface, in a stratum of about the same thickness. It is of four sorts—bichua, black in appearance, and a first rate road metal; mathia, a lighter softer kind, with which a quantity of clay or earth is always intermixed; pathria, a sandy stony metal, and chatán, a hardy yellow metal good for roads, which peither mathia nor pathria is. The kankar reefs of the Gumti have been already mentioned; some of these contain a fossil formation of a yellow colour from whicb excellent lime is to be obtained. A bed about five acres in extent, and about four feet from the surface of Multáni-matti or Armenian bole, an earth used for dyeing purposes, which has been recently fouud in pargana Chánda, may perhaps be worthy of notice. Animals.—Very few wild animals infest the district, and even those, with the exception of wolves, are rather mischievous than dangerous. Wolves haunt the neighbourhood of ravines ; níl-gáe are found in a few of the denser jungle tracts; wild pigs are comparatively scarce, sugarcane fields, furnishing at once both fond and shelter, are their favourite resort, " the wild hog's reedy bome;" jackals are ubiquitous; monkeys are not numerous, but where they do take up their abode, commit sad depreda- tions on the crops. It is worthy of remark that deer and antelope, so common in other portions of the province, have no place whatever in the zoology of this district. Game of various sorts —the hare, wild goose, partridge, quail, and wild ducks being the most common-is plentiful in the cold weather; fish is found in large quantities both in the river and in large tanks and jhils. The mullet and the rohú are beld in most esteem; the former, which is particularly fine, is confined to the Gumti; the latter is more general. Of useful animals there are few indigenous breeds, and what there are, miserably poor. The horse is altogether wanting; the nearest approach to it is the ordinary wretched pony of the country; the standard of excellence 52