184/.] Report on a Passage made on the Nurbudda River. 1 107 



Oonkur to Dawree and back again, the stream being at that time very 

 low, but on neither occasion did I meet with any obstruction. 



I have, &c. 

 (Signed) R. H. Keatinge, Lieut. 



Assist, to the Poll. Agent in Nimar. 



P. S. — I have the honor to enclose a section of the proposed road 

 .along the northern bank of the river at the falls. 



(True Copy.) 



(Signed) W. F. Eden, 

 1st Asst. to the Resident. 

 Copy. 



Report of Voyage down the Nurbudda from Mundlaisur to Baroach s 

 in the month of Juiy, 1847. 



I left Mundlaisur on the morning of the 22nd July, 1847. Having 

 two boats, one the common ferry boat, flat-bottomed, wall-sided ; about 

 30 feet long and 2\ high, requiring 4 men to manage, and capable of 

 carrying 6 marries pucka; (2880 tt»s.,) and the other consisting of 3 

 canoes, lashed together with a platform of bamboos upon them. This 

 latter I took, having some doubt as to the possibility of getting a large 

 boat down the Hirn Phal rapids, remembering what Captain Anderson 

 had done (vide his report) and intending, in case of extreme difficulty, 

 to unlash the canoes, and carry them round the rapids, launching them 

 again below. The result, however, will show that the flat bottomed 

 are the boats best of all calculated in all seasons for this navigation. 



2nd. "We reached Chiculda on the 24th, a distance, I suppose, of 

 nearly 60 miles. The only obstruction, below Mundlaisur to this 

 point, is the Suheshur Dharrah. This has been so well described by 

 Captain Anderson, that I need not enlarge upon it. It can either be 

 got over by a road along the southern bank, or by, as he proposes, 

 deepening the backwater. Should the former, for reasons hereafter 

 given, be preferred, the accompanying plan drawn by Lieutenant Keat- 

 inge, of the Bombay Artillery, Assistant at Mundlaisur, who has kindly 

 levelled and surveyed this spot, will show the road proposed, a dis- 

 tance of about 1 200 yards in all. 



3rd. I left Chiculda on the 25th, and reached the Hirn Phal at 12 

 of noon. This distance, about 1 6 or 1 7 miles by the map, is perfectly 



