a town and district of Hindustan, in the province of Agra, situated on the Putchpore River, which, during the rainy season, swells to a torrent; and on the other side is surrounded by deep and extensive ravines. The town is surrounded by a good stone wall with bastions, and the fort is in the centre. The rajah is of the military tribe of the Rajpoots, who have been gradually stript of their best possessions by the Afghans, Moguls, and Maharrats. It is seventy miles south-west from the city of Agra. Long. 77. E. Lat. 26. 35. N.

KARFOOT, a large and ancient town of Koordistan, built on the summit of a hill, at the eastern extremity of a fertile valley about three or four miles in breadth and about twenty-five in length. It belongs to the pasha of Maden, or inspector of the mines, who resides at Gebbin Maden, the silver mines on the Euphrates.