In Oude, from the causes above described, lands of the same denomination and kind often yield double the rate of rent that they yield in our own conterminous districts, or districts on the opposite side of the Ganges, and other rivers that separate our territories from those of Oude.

Under a tolerable Government, Oude would soon become one of the most beautiful countries in India; but the lands would fall off, in fertility, as ours do from over-cropping, no doubt.
_January_ 28, 1850 .-- Shahabad, ten miles.

We crossed, close under Palee, the little river Gurra, which continued for some miles to flow along, in its winding course, close by on our left.

It is here some five or six miles to the south-west of the town.

The soil we have come over is chiefly muteear, or the doomuteea, tightened by a mixture of clay, or argillaceous earth.