88 WAGES DRAINING ROADS. 



always paid at this rate, whatever be the current 

 price of grain. Labourers at the Kodalee, (spade,) 

 sunrise to noon, get 2 seers (4 Ibs.) of grain, Bz. 

 weight, and for extra working are paid over and 

 above. 



21st. Very little attention is paid to draining 

 lands, and those used are common channels dug round 

 a field, about two feet wide, and one to two feet deep. 



22d. No attention whatever is paid to embank- 

 ments. 



23d. The country is rather extensively wooded, 

 and in general contains mangoes, mahooah, and jack. 



24th. The roads, if such they can be called, are 

 infamous, and disgraceful to the highest degree, and 

 are the most insuperable bar to improvement of any 

 sort.* Since I have been here, a period of three years, 



* The assertions contained in this paragraph, attracted the particular 

 notice of the Right Honorable the Governor General, at whose instiga 

 tion an inquiry into its correctness was set on foot, attended with th< 

 following result : 



No. 1499. 

 To G. A. BUSHBY, ESQ. 



Secretary Government of India. 

 Rev. Depart. General Department, Fort William. 



SIR, I am directed by the Honorable the Lieutenant Governor, to 

 acknowledge the receipt of your letter, No. 565, dated the 22nd July 



