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 50 PAL-PAL PAILA --Pargana PALLA-Tahsil LAKIYMPUR-District KHERI.---The town of Paila is built on some high land, looks very dilapidated now, and is nothing beyond an ordinary-sized village, the residents being chiefly Brahmans, Kurmis, Pásis, and Chamárs. The returns showing a popula- tion of 1,613 in 317 houses. No trade seems to be carried on in the town. PAINTEPUR*—Pargana MAHMUDABAD—Tahsil BARI-District SITA- PUR.--This town lies in about 3 miles west of the high road from Bahram- ghat to Sitapur, which latter place is 42 miles south-east; latitude 27°14' porth, and longitude 81°13' east. The town is said to have been founded 300 years ago by one Paint Pál, an Ahban Raja of Maholi, and to have been named after him. It is now the residence of Kázim Husen Khán, who owns estates in the neighbourhood, and who is cousin of the Taluqdar of Mahmudabad, four miles off. The population is 5,127, there being about seven Hindus to every Musalman. The only Government building in the town is the school at which the average daily attendance is 70. Paintepur contains 1,189 mud-built and but two masonry houses, one of latter is the taluqdar's residence--a substantial edifice. The local bazar is held on Sundays and Tuesdays; and in the month of December there is a fair at which all the commodities in ordinary demand are to be purchased. The annual value of all sales is estimated at Rs. 1,31,060. There is a large community of bankers settled here, in addition to whom, the Banián element is strong in the town, which on the whole is flourishing and of considerable local importance. PALI Parganat-Tahsil SHAHABAD—District HARDOL.—A. light sandy tract in the south-eastern corner of the Shahabad tahsil, between the Garra and Sendha rivers. On the east the Garra separates it from par- ganas Shahabad and Saromannagar, and on the west and south-west the Sendha from parganas Allahganj (Farukabad) and Katiári. Barwan adjoins it on the south and Pachhoha on the north. In an area of 73 square miles, of which 46 are cultivated, it contains 92 villages. In shape it is irregularly square, with a maximum length and breadth of nearly 12 and 11 miles respectively. Its general aspect is thus described in Captain Gordon Young's assessment note book : "The whole, as a rule, is bhúr, izot necessarily of one standard, but generally light and sandy. There are, however, strips of tarái or low-lying moist lands all along the Garra, and by the sides of the long jhíls which intersect the pargana from north to south. Between these jhils are long high tracts of blur, and along the sides of the jhíls and between these ridges are strips of tarái. From Pali to Sahjanpur all is bhúr of the very sandiest, with numerous shifting sand-bills brought into position by any stump or scrub which arrests the eddy and thus forms the nucleus of a sand hill. If vegetation gets a hold on the hillock it is probably stationary for ever, otherwise the first high wind carries it away to another spot.
 * By Mr, Ferrar, C.8., Assistant Commissioner.
 * By Mr. A H. Hariogton, C.s., Assistant Commissioner,