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In the present chapter we have but touched upon 

 the more salient points connected with the nature of 

 tenures and the rights of tenants, whilst our space 

 naturally renders our remarks crude and incomplete. 

 To the young Assistant who would dive more deep- 

 ly into the sea of the Rent Law, we would recom- 

 mend a little book published by the Government 

 Press, Allahabad, " The North-West Provinces, Rent 

 Law Manual," by Mr. L. W. Teyen of Fatehgarh. 



4. Kinds of soil, and average rates of each. Under 

 this heading we would ask our readers to bear in 

 mind that in this portion we refer chiefly, indeed 

 entirely, to the district of Gorakhpur. The bhdt land 

 is pre-eminently suitable for the cultivation of indigo, 

 and the few factories we know are built in, and culti- 

 vate, lands of this description exclusively. A few 

 ventures have been made in bangar, but with ruinous 

 results. The peculiarity of bhdt land is its retention 

 of moisture, which obviates the necessity, to planter and 

 ryot alike, of irrigation. Indeed, it is only in years 

 when the rains have entirely failed, that we have seen 

 the tenant of the bhdt soil resort to irrigation, either 

 before or after the sowing of his crop. Thus, the 

 nature of the soil gives him the advantage over his, 

 comparatively, less favoured brother of the bangar, 

 I am not agricultural chemist enough to give the 



analytical reasons for this difference in the moisture - 

 R., In. G 



