110 WAGES OF LABOUR EMBANKMENTS. 



the people from the plains going to reside there. I 

 had pukha wells made at each stage on the road 

 between Hoshungabad and Baitool, and now the 

 Nujeebs (police guards) are as healthy as elsewhere, 

 whereas for some thirteen or fourteen years, they 

 died off dreadfully. Indeed I do not think so much is 

 to be attributed to malaria or miasma, as to the bad 

 stagnant water, drunk in these jungles, formerly was. 



20th. Wages Masons get three, four and five 

 annas a day; carpenters and blacksmiths the same; 

 grammies (thatchers) two and a half annas ; coolies 

 two annas; boys one anna commencing work at 

 sun-rise, and leaving off at sun-set, all the year round, 

 having one hour in the middle of the day for dinner. 



21st. No draining is used, or required. 



22nd. Embankments for rivers are needless, the 

 banks being so very high : but in the eastern Pur- 

 gunahs (subdivisions) of Nursingpore and Chind- 

 warrah, the fields are banked up all round about 

 three feet high, and six, eight, or ten feet thick ; 

 this keeps in the water during the rains, and in Oc- 

 tober it is cut and let out for sowing wheat crops. 



23rd. The country is beautifully wooded. Teak, 

 Rohinnee,* Taaj, Sissoo,f Mowah,| Gumrasgee, 



* Soymida Febrifuga. t Dalbcrgia Sissoo. + Bassia latifolia. H. II. S. 



