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Apart from the rainfall, which is thus seen to be fairly well 

 distributed all over the coastal zone, the country is well watered by 

 means of springs, swamps, and brooks. Rivers are few, and, except 

 in the South- West corner of the State, do not run all the year 

 round ; but they all form along their course chaplets of pools, which 

 afford an abundant supply of water for irrigation. 



Although the country, on the whole, looks somewhat wanting 

 in fresh running streams, there is underground an immense store 

 of water, which is reached by sinking wells, varying in depth from 

 10 to 80 feet. Many of those wells, however, more especially in the 



