506 Note on the Navigation of the river Nurbudda. [No. 151. 



Walpoor to Chiculdah, cannot, I think, exceed forty, so that taking 

 the shorter route from Kowant to Tulluckwara, and reckoning the 

 coss at two miles, the entire length of road would be about one 

 hundred miles, and Dhurmraj being fifty miles lower down, the dis- 

 tance might be still further reduced by making that the debarking 

 point, instead of Chiculdah." 



From* the information gleaned by Captain Abbott it appears, that 

 4th. Capt. Abbott, the river between Mundleysir and Chiculdah is na- 

 vigable for lightly burdened boats for the greater part of the year. 

 Below Chiculdah, he says, the stream is broken by long ledges of rock 

 into a number of narrow channels, forming what is called the Hirun 

 Phall, or Deer's Leap. These rocks, he further states, were described 

 as being extremely solid, and severed by intervals of sixteen or eighteen 



feet. 



" A mile below this, it finds a single channel of forty yards, bound- 

 ed on either side by cliffs, into which the stream, 600 yards in width, 

 contracts in volume as it rushes down the declivity of this gorge with 

 extreme fury." 



This officer, however, after describing from hearsay this formidable 

 obstacle, considers that there are reasons for believing its difficulties 

 to be exaggerated. 



To the information thus obtained regarding this portion of the river, 



5th Sir C Wade's through Lieutenant Mathias and Major Wilson in 

 testimony. 1820, from Lieutenant Anderson in 1841, and from 



Captain Abbott submitted in the present year, it may be satisfactory 

 to append the opinion of the late resident at Indore, Sir C. Wade. 



He writes as follows : " Having seen the obstructions of the Nur- 

 budda in almost every part surveyed by Captain Anderson, his de- 

 scription of them appears to me to confirm more closely to their real 

 nature than that of any other which I have met with, excepting 

 where he assigns a fall of eight feet at the Suhesur Durruh, near Mo- 

 heysir, which does not in my opinion exceed five, and with respect to 

 the length of the Hirun Phall fall being considerable, which did not 

 strike me as being so. I should say it cannot exceed sixty or seventy 

 feet, and is composed of detached masses of rock, which I am con- 



* This would appear to be independent of Lieutenant Anderson's. 



