Rich crops of rice are grown on this muteea, which retains its moisture so much better than the looser doomutea soil.
Half-way we came through a neat village, the lands of which are subdivided between the members of a large family of Kunojee Brahmins, who came out to see us pass, and pay their respects.

The cultivation was so fine that I hoped they were of the class who condescended to hold their own ploughs.

I asked them; and they, with seeming pride, told me that they did not--that they employed servants to hold their ploughs for them.

When I told them that this was their _misfortune_, they seemed much amused, but were all well-behaved and respectful, though they must have thought my notion very odd.
The little Gurra flows from the Oude Tarae forest by the town of Phillibheet, where boats are built, to be taken down to Cawnpoor, on the Ganges, for sale.

About four hundred, great and small, are supposed to be taken down the Gurra every year, in the season of the rains.