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MUSAFIRKIAM-JUSSOOREE. Musafirkhána. — Tahsil or Sub-division of Sultánpur District, Oudl.. - See MUZAFFARKHANA. Muziri. — Tiluk or Sub-division in Trichinopoli District, Madras Presidency. Area, 748 square miles, containing i town and 222 villages. l'opulation (1871) 255,132; (1881) 258,068, namely, 122,262 males and 135,806 females, occupying 46,322 houses. Hindus numbered 250,082 ; Muhammadans, 3585; Christians, 4397 ; and 'others,' 4. Musiri Sub-division lies north of the Kaveri river. The villages along the bank of the Káveri, being well irrigated by channels from that river, are fertile. The centre and northern portions of the Suldivision are, as a rule, unirrigated. In addition to the Kareri, the Ayyar and the Karaipottánár are the only rivers of any importance. The country is generally flat, the only range of hills being the PACHAMALAIS. The soil is black in the hollows, and red on the higher levels and in the neighbourhood of the hills. The rates of assessment on irrigated lands range from 25. to 14s. ; the rates for unirrigated lands from 9d. to 75. In 1883, the Sub-division contained 3 criminal courts; 10 police stations (thiinás) ; 79 regular police. Land revenue, 135,372. Musiri.—Town in Musiri Sub-division, Trichinopoli District, Madras Presidency; head-quarters of an Assistant Collector and a tahsildur. Situated on the Cauvery river, 25 miles from Trichinopoli town, and almost exactly opposite to Kulitilai station on the Erode Branch of the South Indian Railway. A considerable amount of traffic from the Sub-clivision is carried on at this station. Lat. 10° 57' N., and long. 78° 28' 56" E. Population (1881) 4088. Number of houses, 953. Dispensary and post-office. Muskára. — North-Western tahsil of Hamirpur District, NorthWestern Provinces, lying along the south bank of the river Betwa. Area, 410 square miles, of which 224} are cultivated. Population (1881) 79,817. Land revenue, £15,330 ; total Government revenue, £17,185; rental paid by cultivators, £23,346; average incidence of Government revenue, is. 2d. per acre. This tahsil was formerly known as Jalalpur. In 1885 it contained i civil and I criminal court; number of police circles (thánás), 5 ; regular police, 48 men; village watch or rural police, 189. Mussooree (Masúri).--Town and sanitarium in Dehrá Dún District, North-Western Provinces. Lat. 30° 27' 30" N., long: 78° 6' 30" E. Stands on the crest of a Himálayan peak, among beautiful and varied mountain scenery. Mussooree forins practically one station with LANDAUR, where there is a convalescent depôt for European troops, established in 1827. Elevation above sea-level, 7433 feet. Large numbers of visitors during the summer months. Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, three or four private schools, public library, masonic