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ward are probably correct enough, but as the Nowgong road turns 

 off before reaching Kaiinaha, those from the Westward omit all the 

 traffic to and from the cantonments and their neighbourhood. 



The road in question is a most important one, but is never in 

 good order, except just after the annual repairs ; it is much in- 

 tersected with "nullahs," and in the rains is quite impassable; 

 that it would be an expensive undertaking I believe, but as it passes 

 through very little mar soil, and kunkur is to be met with along its 

 course, I do not think it would be so much so, as most other lines 

 of communication in Bundelcund, while in importance it yields to 

 none. 



Trade. 



From the abovementioned statements, it appears that the chief 

 exports from Mahoba towards the East are pawn, cotton and ghee, 

 in return for which are received grain of all kinds, sugar and cloth ; 

 while from the West, iron and kodo are imported in exchange for 

 cotton. Grain, gram, tobacco, sugar and cloth, likewise pass in large 

 quantities towards Chutterpore, from whence pawn, soap, ghee, salt, 

 saltpetre, and iron are furnished for Banda and Humeerpore con- 

 sumption. 



Marts. 



Markets here seem only to be held in five or six of the larger 

 villages, and in them but once a week ; Kubrai alone having two 

 market days, Saturday and Tuesday. In Mahoba Proper, on Satur- 

 day, and in Sreenugger, on Monday, there is a fair show of goods, 

 and local bazars are held at Bareegurh and Bilbai on Fridays. Se- 

 veral Melas assemble in the year at different holy places of resort, 

 but they are all for religious aud not for commercial purposes. 



Towns. 



The three residences of the Amils and Talookas of former days 

 are naturally still the places of most consequence in the Pergun- 

 nah, and those containing the largest number of inhabitants. Ma- 

 hoba itself with the adjacent villages of Dhureeba and Bhuttepura 

 has a population of 7,846, aud is the head-quarters of an Assistant 

 Magistrate and his office. The Tehsildaree and Thanah are also here. 



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