124 ROADS - CARRIAGE. 



Q. 24/z. What is the state of the roads ? 



A. The roads are very indifferent, and most of 

 them always impassable for carriages, notwithstand- 

 ing the district pays one per cent, as its assessment 

 for their support, and these are only smoothed once 

 in the year. 



Q. 25th. Is the district intersected by streams ? 



A. The district is bounded by the Carumnasa, 

 the Ganges, and the Soane. The interior streams, 

 or nullahs, have water only during the rains. 



Q. 26^. Is land, or water carriage resorted to, 

 for the conveyance of produce ? 



A. Generally land carriage, except on the banks 

 of the G an ires. 



Q. VXth. To what extent have manufactures or 

 commerce been carried on in the district, and have 

 they had good or bad effects on its manufacture ? 



A. There is little commerce or manufacture in 

 the district, saving that of Indigo, which has been 

 of the greatest advantage, inasmuch as zumeendars 

 and ryots are enabled to get funds from the plan- 

 ters upon more advantageous terms than they 



