1842.] to be supplied from the River Jumna. 775 



Without artificial irrigation of this nature, large tracts of it, and amongst 

 them that which would come under the influence of the Kutha Puthur 

 Canal, cannot be brought under cultivation. Wells cannot be dug, and 

 the difficulty of procuring water even for domestic purposes, renders 

 them uninhabitable. The water in such cases possesses a double value, 

 being used for the support of life, as well as for irrigation, whilst the 

 rapid fall of its course gives it a still further value as the motive power 

 of machinery. 



6. It is therefore far from improbable, that other circumstances be- 

 sides those of a mere profitable return for the water may render the 

 execution of the proposed work deserving the attention of Government, 

 or become an object for private enterprize. 



7. Agricultural operations in the Dhoon are still too much in their 

 infancy to enable the Board to speak with confidence on these points, 

 whilst they are also unprovided with results from the experience of the 

 lately opened Beejapore water-course, and the now constructing Raj- 

 pore water-course, on which to build any certain calculations of the 

 effects of such works in the peculiar climate and soil of the Dhoon. 



8th. The present time is also probably one in which the Government 

 would be reluctant to engage in an expensive undertaking of problema- 

 tical utility. 



9th. These considerations restrain the Board from recommending the 

 work for immediate execution. But they think it of great importance 

 that the scheme should be generally made known, in order that its 

 merits may be fully discussed. They therefore propose, with the sanc- 

 tion of the Government, to print the Plans, and so much of the Corres- 

 pondence as may tend to throw light on the project, and hope on some 

 future opportunity to be able to bring the subject again forward on 

 better grounds than they at present possess. 



I have the honor, &c. 



(Signed) H. M. Elliott, Secretary. 

 Sudder Board of Revenue, 

 N. W. P. Allahabad, the 1st April, 1842. 



(True Copies.) 



H. M. Elliott, Secretary. 



