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KORAH

Volume 12 · 152 words · 1842 Edition

a district of Hindustan, in the province of Allahabad, situated in the doab, or the space enclosed between the Ganges and the Jumna, and between the 26th and 27th degrees of north latitude. The country is in general flat, except on the banks of the Ganges, where the villages are situated, being usually surrounded by mango trees. The whole territory is fertile, and in a progressive state of prosperity, under the administration of the British, to whom it was ceded in 1801. Korah is the name of the principal town, in the province of Allahabad. The travelling distance is sixty-seven miles from Lucknow, and 301 from Delhi. Long. 80. 40. E. Lat. 26. 6. N. This is also the name of a village in Cutch, situated about ten miles south from Luckput Bunder, on the road from that place to Mandavee, a sea-port on the Gulf of Cutch. Lat. 23. 38. N.