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themselves into the adjacent large rivers, the Kane and Betwa. 

 Thus the Chundrawul Nuddee, which forms an important addition 

 to the Kane shortly before it reaches the Jumna, rises near Maho- 

 ba; and the Oormul Nuddee, another tributary of the same stream, 

 is the Southern boundary of part of the Pergunnah, The Kane 

 likewise has its springs here, as also the Urjoon which joins the 

 Burna, and with it the Betwa below Jellalpur. In every instance 

 save the last mentioned, the current is to the Eastward ; and all but 

 one dry up after the rains are over, the Oormel alone retaining 

 water in its hollows. 



Irrigation. 



As in the regulation Pergunnah so here, irrigation as a general 

 means of increasing the fertility of the soil is unknown, which may 

 be ascribed partly to the abundance of land compared with the num- 

 ber of cultivators partly to the fact, that so much of the soil is 

 unfavourable to the practice. In but one instance, viz. at Naigaon, 

 have I seen the "doogla," so universal in the Doab, used here. In 

 some instances, land situated below tanks is watered from them, by 

 cuts being made in the bund ; or, when the proximity of lakes en- 

 sures the water being close to the surface, kutcha wells are dug, at 

 a cost varying from 1 to 10 orI2 Eupees, which last one hot season, 

 and fall in at the beginning of the first rains. 



In some few villages also where Pundooah is the prevalent soil, 

 and sugar-cane much cultivated, these are more abundant, especially 

 towards the south; but the practice is by no means general. 



Latterly, irrigation has received a great impulse from the ef- 

 forts of Lieutenant Burgess; who, by constructing extensive works 

 at the Bejannugger Lake, and raising the bunds and escapes of 

 several of the neighbouring ones, has caused a large quantity of 

 land, previously waste, to be brought under the plough, much too 

 producing the more valuable crops. 



Products. 



The tabular statement in appendix No. 1, shows the quan- 

 tity of land under each kind of crop, as furnished by the Khus- 

 reh survey ; and appendix No. 2, gives the principal exports and 

 imports, which are treated of more fully under the heading 

 " Trade." From the former, it appears that the chief product of 



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