1844.] Note on the Navigation of the river Nurbudda. 507 



vinced would easily yield to explosion, in the hands of a scientific 

 Engineer accustomed to the removal, by that agency, of such ob- 

 stacles." 



This officer concurred with Capt. Anderson in considering that the 

 magnitude of these obstructions has been exaggregated, and recom- 

 mended that the survey should be entrusted to one Engineer alone, 

 with such assistance as might be necessary. He considered it a great 

 mistake trusting for our knowledge of the river to partial observations 

 made at different times and by different persons, who each had his 

 own peculiar views on the subject. 



Regarding the navigability of the stream between Tullukwara and 



1 1 Id Portion. Baroche, there is no doubt. 



Our first account is derived from Mr. W. Webbe, who furnished a 

 memorandum on this portion of the river in June 1820. 



" The navigation from Baroche to Tulluckwara is not open until 



1st. Mr. W. Webbe's fifteen or twenty days after the monsoon sets in, 



Memorandum in 1820. or after the water in the Nurbudda begins to rise, 



which is generally about the beginning of July ; it is first navigated by 

 boats of the burden of ten kulsies or eight candies to fifty kulsies or 

 forty candies, some laden and others not ; they run up in four or five 

 days, and sometimes in three with a strong S. W. monsoon wind, 

 and return heavily laden much about the same time with the current 

 in favor. Boats of these burdens can navigate to Tullukwara until 

 the Dewallee feast, or the month of September, after which the na- 

 vigation becomes difficult, if not impracticable. Those of fifty kulsies 

 have five men in each, and those of ten or twenty have two to four 

 men. These draw, when heavily laden, from five to three and a 

 half feet water ; after the month of September these boats take fifteen 

 days to go, having one or two additional hands in each, and return in 

 six or seven days, the current and wind being then against them 

 they are obliged to track the boat in going up. 



" After an interval of a few days, and after the Nurbudda has con- 

 siderably risen, boats of a larger burden, from one hundred to one 

 hundred fifty kulsies (which are the largest) eighty candies or one 

 hundred twenty candies leave Baroche for Tullukwara with ten men 

 in each, the trip up and down is performed much about the same 

 time as those of a lesser burden ; they return heavily laden, and leave 



