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‘plains similar to the Gangetic Plain behave in 
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had fallen to 253,082 cusecs, and at Amta, just above the 
tidal portion, it was only 76,519 cusecs. In this case the 
problem was solved, or perhaps, it would be more correct to 
say that the knot was cut, by close banking the left side of the 
river and leaving the right bank for the greater part open to 
spill. 
_ The Selye is one of the streams which pour their floods 
into the inundated tract in the Midnapur District. In 1865 
Lieut. R. G. Smyth, R.E., reckoned the flood discharge, where 
it enters the plains at 72,063 cusecs, while near the outfall into 
the Rupnarain estuary the channel could only accommodate 
21,566 cusecs. The Cossye is another stream passing through 
and over this tract, which, at times of high flood, becomes an 
inland sea. It was calculated by Mr. Apjohn that, during 
the height of a flood which occurred in October, 1876, the 
volume of water passing the weir at Midnapur was 187,400 
cusecs, while only 45,400 cusecs were passing within the 
channels of the river in the lower portions. 
rissa, the Khoakhye branch of the Mahanadi passes 
of the numerous channels through which the flood finds its 
way to the sea, was made by Mr. Rhind shortly after the 
occurrence of a very high flood in 1872. He calculated that 
the greatest volume of flood entering the head of the Khoakhye 
was 334,482 cusecs, while the channels in the Puri District by 
which the flood can pass to the sea could not be depended 
on to pass more than about 45,000 cusecs. 
! Short for ‘ cubic feet per second.’ 
