84 THE SOIL OF THE GORUCKPORE DISTRICT. 



Northern EnUta. (continued.) 



From the late A. RONALD, ESQ. Planter at Dunbaree, on the 

 eastern side of the Goruckpore District, to JOHN BELL, 

 ESQ. former Secretary of the Agricultural and Horti- 

 cultural Society of India, dated June 8, 1837. 



SIR, 



Having received a circular from the Society, of 

 date 31st inst. last, I now beg to lay before you 

 replies to the thirty -four questions therein contained, 

 to the best of my ability. Before proceeding in this, 

 I have here to state that the district in which I am 

 situated, is the eastern side of Goruckpore, running 

 along the banks of the great Gunduk, which 

 bounds it to the north, and running about eight 

 miles to the south-east, where it joins the Chup- 

 rah district. 



1st. The soil in general is of a loamy nature, 

 and rather binding, with occasionally here and 

 there some of a sandy kind. It is, however, reten- 

 tive of moisture during the warmer months ; but 

 very apt to harden, or be crusted, by any showers 

 of rain. The climate is salubrious, and partaking 

 of a medium, being neither very moist, nor very dry. 



