The ground around the place is low, and the climate is inferior to that of Seetapoor.

Salt and saltpetre are 'made from the soil immediately round the town.
I have mentioned that Moomtaz-od Dowla might now have been King of Oude had his father not died before his father.

The Mohammedan law excludes for ever the children of any person who dies before the person to whom he or she is the next heir from all right in the inheritance.

Under the operation of this law, the sons of the eldest son of the reigning King are excluded from the succession if he dies before his father, and the crown devolves on the second son, or on the brother of the King, if he leaves no other son.

The sons of all the sons who die, while their father lives, are _mahjoob-ol-irs_, that is, excluded from inheritance.