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354 NONG-SOH-PHOH-NORTH-IVESTERN PROVINCES. use. sent down into the plains in lumps; a little is manufactured into implements of native use. Nong-soh-phoh (or Nobosohphol).- Petty State in the Khási Hills, Assam. Population (1881) 841; revenue, £13. The presiding chief, whose title is siem, is named U Ksan. Potatoes, rice, Indian corn, etc., are grown; and mats are manufactured. Nong-spung. — Petty State in the Khási Hills, Assam. Population (1881) 1506. The presiding chief, whose title is siem, is named U Santeu Singh. He derives his income from his commission as mauzádár in Kámrúp, and his share of the revenue of the Mathekar forest on the border of that District. The natural products include rice, millets, potatoes, honey, and beeswax. Iron-ore is smelted and manufactured into implements of native use. Nong-stoin.—Petty State in the Khási Hills, Assam. Population (1881) 8473; revenue, £425. The presiding chief, whose title is siem, is named U Borson Singh. The natural products include rice, millets, tezpát or bay-leaves, caoutchouc, lac, and beeswax. The manufactures are pottery, cotton cloth, and iron inplements. Limestone and are found. Nong-stoin is connected with Shillong by a fairly good bridle-path, 52 miles in length. Nong-tar-men (or Duára Nong-tar-men). — Petty State in the Khási Hills, Assam. Population (1881) 424; revenue, £25, almost entirely derived from dues on lime quarries. The presiding chief, whose title is sardár, is named U Jantrái. The natural products include oranges, betel-nuts, and pán leaves. A description of net is manufactured out of the fibre of the leaf of the pine-apple, and limestone is largely quarricd. North Lakhimpur.–Sub-division and village in Lakhimpur Disrict, Assam.—See LAKHIMPUR. North-Western Provinces and Oudh.—Lieutenant-Governorship and Chief Commissionership of British India, lying between 23° 52' and 31° 7' n. lat., and between 77° 5' and 84° 40' E. long. Area North Western Provinces, 81,858 square miles; Oudh, 24,246 square miles: total area, 106,104 square miles. Population—North-Western Provinces, 30,781,947 in 1872, and 32,720,128 in 1881; Oudh, 11,220,950 in 1869 (no census of Oudh was taken in 1872), and 11.387,741 in 1881; total British population, 42,002,897 at the time of the previous census, and 44,107,869 in 1881. The native territory under the Lieutenant-Governorship, comprising the two States of Rampur and Garhwal, has an area of 5125 square miles, with a population of 741,750 in 1881. Total area of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, British and Native, 111,229 square miles; total population, 44,849,619. The territory is bounded on the north by Chinese Tartary (Tibet), and on the north-east by the independent kingdom of