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Returning to the road Bhâgalpur to Seuri; near the crossing of the Moa river, are some temples in the villages Shâdipur and Râmgaon; they do not appear to be of any interest. Seuri itself contains numerous old tanks with enormously high embankments; besides these I could see nothing of interest to the archæologist in the place, or near it.  

A few miles to the north-east of the Railway Station of Mallárpur is a small village named Lábhpur, or Phullára. Old temples are said to exist here, and it is said to have been the ancient seat of the Malla Rájás, after whom the districts Mallárpur and the various parganas known as the Malleswar parganas are named. I did not visit the places.

Jamua Kandi also is said to have ancient remains; these, however, are said to be chiefly Muhammadan. I did not see the place.

To the west of Seuri is the great fort, if fort it can be called, of Nagor. The whole pargana is enclosed by a low earthen rampart overgrown with dense scrub and bambu jangal; the ramparts, have a shallow ditch in front, about 20 feet wide now in places, but which once must have been both wider and deeper. The line of ramparts is very irregular both in plan and in profile. As a general rule, however, the height is about 15 feet above the ditch, and the width at base about 80; the top has been naturally rounded by the weather.

The space within the inclosure comprises the entire pargana of Haripur; it is a low, unhealthy, flat piece of land, resembling more some parts of Lower Bengal than the adjacent districts; there is a tirtha here near the village of Tántipâra known as the Tirtha of Bakeswar. The objects of interest are a number of temples grouped near a number of dirty tanks. There is but one large temple, and this is of the style of the Baijnâth ones; it had a line of inscription over the doorway in modern characters, but the characters 