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VR4J01.–VARAL. 203 £76,000; sült, £67,000 ; tobacco, £34,000; raw cotton, 1:31,cco. The imports were valued at £1,533,000, including-jute, £178,000 (i.c. transit trade); piece-goods, £324,000; salt, £. 184,000; raw cotton, £122,000; rice, £121,000; sugar, £95,000; oil-seeds, £70,000; tobacco, £60,000. The figures do not include the subsidiary port of Madanganj, which had a business valued at £170,000. The imports of jute are derived in almost equal quantities from the adjoining Districts of Mainansingh and Tipperah, and from Dacca itself. The exports of jute are all sent to Calcutta, cither direct by steamer and country boat, or by railway from Goálandó. In 1876–77, out of a total export of 1,600,000 maunds of jute, 670.000 were despatched through Goalanda, 570,000 by country boat, and 360,000 direct by stcamer. In 1877–78, the total export of jute had risen to 2,137,000 maunds, or almost exactly the same quantity as that exported from Sirajganj. No later statistics are available, but trade, especially in jute, has largely increased of late years. The trade with Chittagong chiefly consists of the export of tobacco, food-grain, and oil-seeds, and the import of raw cotton, which has been grown in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Nárainganj forms the terminus of the new Dacca - Maimansingh Railway just opened (December 1885). Nárájol. – Village in Midnapur District, Bengal; situated on the Paláspái, a small stream, in lat, 22° 34' 8" x., and long. 87° 39' 4" Es Seat of a large manufacture of cotton cloth and mats. Population between 2000 and 3000, but not separately returned in the Census of 1881. Nárakal.--Town and port in the Siate of Cochin, Vadras Presidency; situated in lat. 102' 30 Y., and long. 70 12 E., 3 nuiles west of Cochin city. Population (1881) 4254. The place oires its importance to a so-called mud bank, which stretches about 2 miles seaward, and is 4 miles long. Within this, vessels can run in the worst of the south-west monsoon, when all other ports on the coast are closed. This mud apparently breaks the force of the sea, for the water within is calm when the weather is at its roughest outside. During the famine of 1877, the port was much used in the monsoon season for landing grain, which was then conveyed by backwater to the railway at Tirur, and so to the distressed Districts. Coasting steamers call here regularly. Várakal is mentioned as the seat of a considerable Christian populatiɔn by Fra Paolo Bartolomeo. Narál.–Sub-division of Jessor District, Bengal, lying between 22° 55' 45" and 23° 21' n. lat., and between 89° 25' and 89° 51' 30" E. long. Area, 487 square miles; villages, 802; houses, 36,440. Population (1881) 328,172, namely, 173,806 Hindus, 154:341 Muhammadans, and 25 Christians, Number of persons per square mile, 673.8; villages per square mile, 1.64; houses per square mile, 77; inmates per house, 9; proportion of males, 49°7 per cent. This Sub-division,