396 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [November, 1909. 
‘* District from the neglect of the bunds will not be deemed an 
‘‘exaggerated one when the nature of the inundation be 
‘*eonsidered. At Belloe and at Butyong, the two principal 
** places where the embankments have been carried away, the 
. *‘river has made such encroachments that it has now reached 
“the low land and formed for itself channels in every direc- 
**magnitude and depth as it is quite impossible for any species, 
“ of cultivation, to which the natives of Upper India are accus- 
**tomed, to withstand. 
‘*In recommending the restoration of these banks, I am 
‘desirous of not being thought inconsistent to principles which 
‘“*[ have advocated on other occasions. I consider the differ- 
‘fence in the cultivation between the Lower and Upper Pro- 
** vinces to be quite sufficient to explain the necessity of different 
**systems being acted on. In thé one instance the country 
** was well adapted to receive the inundation from the numer- 
‘“the country reduced from the highest state of fertility to one 
*‘of comparative waste, whilst no ultimate benefits are ever 
‘likely to be derived of sufficient magnitude to restore the 
‘losses which the admission of the inundation has already 
. certain evils which I have just described might be of slow 
growth, and the contingent ones might not happen for 
