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which, traversing the north of Garotha tahsil, flows into the wild 

 broken country known as the " G-har " at the junction of the 

 Betwa and the Dhasan. 



In the Lalitpur sub-division the Betwa has not thrown out 

 many ravines, but the other principal drainage lines the Shahzad, 

 Sanjnam and Jamni nadis are not only fringed by wide strips of 

 broken unoulturable land, but receive the drainage of a net work 

 of larger or smaller tributary nalas traversing the whole of the 

 black-soil area. 



The .destructive influence of these nalas is by no means con- 

 fined to the land rendered unculturable by them. Their more 

 serious, though less obvious, effect, consists in the gradual thinning 

 of the upper stratum of good black soil which is not being replaced 

 in any way and wbich must lead to the gradual deterioration of the 

 district, though the process may be a slow one. The evil has 

 been many times pointed out as also has the only apparent remedy, 

 the construction of a series of small bandhs such as are found in 

 parts of the Banda district. There are a few good bandhs in 

 tahsil Moth and in Northern Jhansi, but elsewhere little has been 

 done, and the only systematic work of this kind undertaken by 

 Government has been at Raksa in the red-soil tract where such 

 bandhs are of comparatively little use. 



G. 0. no. 1428/1-401-1907 ofSlst May, 1907. 



An important feature is the extent of artificial tanks and lakes. 

 A separate Tanks division of the Irrigation department has recently 

 been formed, and the restoration of old and the construction 

 of new works should make good progress. The importance of the 

 damming-up of ravines to check their destructive influence and of 

 constructing field embankments, to which the Settlement Officer 

 refers, is recognized by Government. 



Extracts from the Jalaun District Gazetteer of the United Provinces, 

 by D. L. DBAKE-BBOCKMAN, ESQ., c.s., 1909. 



The natural divisions into which the country falls are few and 

 clearly marked. Along the outer edge is the ravine belt, fringed 

 here and there, where the contour of the land permits, by strips 

 of rich alluvial soil, but for the most part consisting of low hum- 

 inocks thickly strewn with kankar and clad with the thinnest scrub 

 or vegetation. The upland which succeeds is composed of light- 

 coloured hard soil, the most valuable properties of which are being 

 continually washed away by the downward flow of the rain-water. 

 Except in the north, the gradual fall in the surface to the level 



