764 Proposed formation of a Canal for Irrigation [No. 128. 



slope being overcome by four falls in masonry : one of four and half feet, 

 two of eight feet, and one of twelve feet, which latter will deliver the 

 tail-water into the Sutwala Row, and ultimately into the Asun and 

 Jumna rivers. 



1 1 . The facility with which boulders will be procured, and the cheap- 

 ness of the very best lime, ought, I should think, to enable the persons, 

 who superintend the construction of these works, to do them efficiently 

 on the estimate now submitted. 



12. I need hardly advert to the power for machinery which is intro- 

 duced into the Doon by the construction of these masonry falls. On 

 the Beejapoor water-course, there are 115 descents averaging four feet 

 each. On the Kuttha Puttha Canal, the four proposed falls will place 

 on the high lands means for machinery of every description. It may be 

 long before these means are taken advantage of, but with the growing 

 interest taken in this valley, the annual arrival of new settlers, the cer- 

 tainty that a new generation of Europeans is now springing up, who 

 must look to a livelihood from this country, I see in perspective not 

 only a valley rich in its fields and harvests, but one that will be the 

 centre of an active and manufacturing population. 



13. The quantity of water required by the Kuttha Puttha Canal is 

 eighty cubic feet a second. When not used for irrigation, the escape 

 ultimately finds its way back to the Jumna, through the course of the 

 Sutwala and Asun rivers. 



14. I am prepared for a question that may be put as to the propriety 

 of going to the expense of this work for using, (advantageously though 

 it may be,) eighty cubic feet of water, when the demand for the Delhi 

 and Doab Canals absorbs during years of drought the whole volume of 

 the Jumna river, and when this eighty feet, now proposed to be turned 

 to account in the Doon, at an expense of 90,000 rupees, would be used 

 in the Doab without incurring any expense at all. In the right that 

 Government has very properly assumed over the waters in the Doon, 

 I merely see the intention of regulating the supply and establishing a 

 supervision, so that the water taken from any river may be applied to 

 the greatest advantage. The inhabitants of the Deyra Doon, who on 

 the west side possess the Asun river rising in their own country, and 

 pouring a supply of water into the Jumna, equal to 600 cubic feet a se- 

 cond, may well be permitted to relieve the Jumna of one-eighth of that 



