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soil is barren and cut up by ravines. It is intersected by numerous streams, and contains many shallow ponds and natural reservoirs, which overflow during the rains, but become dry in the hot See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season. Except in the eastern portion, which lies in the doabs between the Kewani and Chauka and the See also:

GOGRA, or GHAGRA

Gogra and Chauka See also:

rivers, the soil is as a See also:

RULE

rule dry, but even this moist See also:

TRACT (from Lat. tractare, to treat of a matter, through Provencal tractat and Ital. trattato)

tract is interspersed with patches of See also:

LAND

land covered with saline efflorescence called reh.

The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal rivers are the Gogra, which is navigable by boats of large See also:

TONNAGE

tonnage throughout the See also:

YEAR

year, and the Chauka. The See also:

CLIMATE

climate is considered healthy, and the cantonments of Sitapur are famous for the See also:

low mortality of the British troops stationed there. The See also:

ANNUAL

annual rainfall averages about 38 in. In 1901 the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population was 1,175,473, showing an increase of 9% in the See also:

DECADE (from Gr. Oka, ten)

decade. The principal crops are See also:

wheat, See also:

rice, pulses, millets, See also:

BARLEY (Hordeum sativum)

barley, See also:

SUGAR

sugar-See also:

CANE

cane and See also:

POPPY

poppy. The district is traversed by the Lucknow-Bareilly See also:

section of the See also:

ROHILKHAND

Rohilkhand and See also:

KUMAON

Kumaon railway. The See also:

HISTORY

history of Sitapur is closely associated with that of the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of Oudh. The district figured prominently in the See also:

Mutiny of 1857, when the native troops quartered in the cantonments fired on their See also:

OFFICERS

officers, many of whom were killed, as were also several military and See also:

CIVIL

civil officers, with their families, in attempting to See also:

ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli

escape. See Sitapur District Gazetteer (See also:

ALLAHABAD

Allahabad, 1905).

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