1844.] Note on the Navigation of the river Nurbudda. 509 



rain that falls inland in the countries through which the Nurbudda 

 takes its course: if it begins early, the boats of course leave this early, 

 and the navigation continues as long as there is sufficient water for 

 them to float up and down; the time stated above is generally the 

 month fixed for it Last year being a season of unusual heavy rain, 

 the navigation was open until January 1820. 



" The commodities carried from hence are salt, cocoanut, sugar, 

 beetle nuts, dates, both dry and fresh, brooms, cocoanut shell, hooka 

 bottoms, earthenware, pepper, spices of all sorts, and curry stuff; and 

 sometimes when there is a scarcity, wheat, rice, and paddy. The 

 returns are mowda, honey, timber, rafters, bamboos, bamboo mats, 

 and sometimes till, ghee and hemp. 



"The above information is from some of the most intelligent 

 merchants who have traded for thirty- five, twenty-five, and twenty 

 years up and down from this to Tulluckwara and Deygaum Peeplia; 

 these men go themselves every year in their boats, and always assist 

 the boatmen in navigating their vessels. 



Further information is contained in the Journal forwarded by 

 Lieutenant Mathias in 1820. 



" Here* I once more embarked on the 2d May, but in a larger des- 



2d. Lieut. Mathias' cription of boat, being nearly thirty feet in length, 

 Journey in 1820. ^^ and ft hftlf m wi( j th wUh ft flftt boUom . the other 



that I had for my people was in every respect like an English boat, 

 with a keel, &c. &c, and it drew two and a half feet water. The only 

 interruption I received from this to Baroche, even at this advanced 

 time of the year, was at the Bawapeer and Tantee Dag Ghauts, 

 where the large boat was detained a few minutes by the shallowness 

 of the water, so that there is an uninterrupted navigation for the 

 largest description of boats that sail in the river as far as Peeplia, 

 thirteen miles above Tulluckwara, during the rains, and for two months 

 after it ; but from the hilly and broken nature of the country, Tulluck- 

 wara is the highest situation up the river that could be fixed upon as 

 a depot, particularly as there is a good cart road from that to Chicul- 

 dah by Barsnee, Odeypoor, Raj poor, and Cooksee, or by Barsnee, 

 Paul Mahaul, Parmwaur, Kajpoor, and Cooksee, by that making the 



* At Tullm k ward. 



