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214 NARRAK'AL-NARSAFUR. houses, 657. Post-office, Government school, police station, muusif's court, and rest-house. Nárowál town has been much improved of late years; many of the houses are built of brick, the principal streets paved, and the drainage attended to. The Church of England Mission have established a small settlement of Native Christians here, and keep up a middle-class school, which receives a municipal grant of £50 a year. The principal trade consists in the export of agricultural produce, but the town is chiefly famous for its leather work; native saddles and shoes of superior quality being made here, and sent to Anritsar and other large commercial centres in the Punjab. Good copper and brass vessels are also made, and there are a few Kashmiri settlers in the town, who make pashmina shawl edging, which is sent to Amritsar for sale. Municipal income in 1883-84, £305, or is. 4d. per head of the town population. Narrakal.— Town in Cochin, Madras Presidency. See NARAKAL. Narri.-Salt-mine in Kohát District, Punjab; one of the series extending along either bank of the Teri Toi river. Lat 33° 11' 15" N., long. 71° 12' 30" E.; lies on the southern side of the range of saltbearing hills north of the river, 31 miles west-south-west of Malgin mine, and 341 miles south-south-west from Kohát town. The quarries of pure rock-salt extend over an area 2 miles long by half a mile broad. The mineral is excavated by blasting, and the mine is resorted to by Afrídís, Khataks, Bangashes, Mohmands, and Swátís. Preventive establishment of 13 men. Formerly a Government military outpost, held by a detachment from the Kohát garrison, but now aba Average annual Government salt revenue for the six years ending 1881-82, £ 1022. Narsannapet. — Town in Ganjám District, Madras Presidency. Population (1881) 8230, namely, Hindus 8223, and Muhammadans 7. Narsápur.— Táluk in Godávari District, Madras Presidency. Area, 437 square miles. Population (1881) 200, 153, namely, 96,592 males and 103,561 females, dwelling in 2 towns and 137 villages, and occupying 33,785 houses. Hindus number 196,040; Muhammadans, 3619; and Christians, 494. In 1883 the táluk contained i civil and 3 criminal courts; police circles (thinois), 6; regular police, 68 men. Land revenue, £58,659. The táluk lies in the south of the District, and has a seaboard on the south. There are 3 main canals used for irrigation and navigation. The Vasisht, an affluent of the Goclávari, runs through the filuk. Pro. ducts-rice, gram, yams, betcl, cocoa and arcca nuts, tobacco, and sugar-cane. Principal industry, toy-making. Narsápur (Nursapore). -Town in Godavari District, Madras Presidency; situated in lat. 16° 26' 20" N., and long. 81° 44' 30" E., at the mouth of the Vasishta Godavari. Population (1881) 7184, namely,