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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER II
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It is capable of being made, in two or three years, a beautiful garden.
The single trees, which are scattered all over it, have been shorn of their leaves and small branches by the cowherds for their cattle, but they would all soon clothe themselves again under protection.

The groves are sufficiently numerous to furnish sites for the villages and hamlets required.

All the large sakhoo-trees have been cut down and taken away on the ground we have come over, which is too near the river for them to be permitted to attain full size.

Not an acre or a foot of the land is oosur, or unfit for tillage.

Poknapoor is in the estate of Etowa, which forms part of the pergunnah of Peepareea, to which Bahadur Sing, the person above described, lays claim.


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