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314 LUC ábád. Other names than these are difficult to trace, and seem to belong to another order of things, probably they point to an aboriginal origin. Area and cultivation.—The following statement shows the number of townships, area, and cultivation in the district of Lucknow:- Parganas. Luckno. Name of tahsil, Lucknow Bijnaur Kákori 180 102 56,139 42,889 19,261 18,663 10,695 • 4,586 2,488 12,873 1,388 32,357 751 10,489 5,631 6,370 2,592 2,14697,820 1,123 94,772 472 88,750 Total.. 346 118,279 33,939 4,577 58,719 14,493 3,741 12,31,342 Mohanialganj. Mohanlalganj, 171 Nigohan Sis- 57 saindi, 66,132 23,860 84.519 15.688 2,614 16,762 782 3,168 7,300 2,006 1,190 128,417 424 46,878 Total ... 228 89,992 50,207 3,246 19,930 9,306 1,614 174,295 .. Mahona Malihabad ... Malibabad. 194 188 .52,979 71,097 23,209 31,834 1,362 9,926 9,729 2,185 4,957 3,543 1,326 94,259 1,185 119,573 Total .... 383 124,076 66,043 4,047, 19,656 8,500 2,511 213,832 Grand Total.... 966 332,347 139,189 11,870 96,304 32,299 7,866 619,469 Arece under cultivation.--The area of land under cultivation amounted to 480,274 acresin the old district from which parganas Mohán, Aurás, Kursi, and Dewa have been removed. The present area is 488 square miles or 312,320 acres; but the survey was in 1867-68, and there are now probably 350,000 acres under the plough. The above area does not agree exactly with others given elsewhere, nor with the annual report* which gives the area of cultivation at 533 square miles. The difficulty probably arises in connexion with the 23 villages of the Lucknow district, which in 1869 were included in pargana Dewa and transferred to Bara Banki, It is not worth while now adjusting exactly the proportion of cultivation which existed eight years ago, because it has now largely increased. In the old district 43) , per cent of the cultivation was irrigated. • Statistical Returp la.