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Sircar of Pytun. 



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right bank, and after receiving the waters of two or three streams 



that drain the country towards the Sittarah hills, passes onwards 



In a meandering course for 18 miles in a southerly direction, through 



broad alluvial plains, to empty itself into the Godavery, near to Jo- 



geeseevee — various mountain streamlets uniting in their progress 



towards the basin of the Godavery, form two or three large sized 



streams, the principal of which are the Yurr and Wurra, descending 



from the Sittarah hills, and disembogue themselves between Pytun, 



and the village of Gungalwarree, into the Godavery : a large sized 



stream without a name, rises below the bases of the hills about 



Kusnair, and descending southerly in a very winding source, quits 



the Sircar half a mile north of Barumgaon, and ultimately discharges 



itself into the Godavery, a mile westward of Nowgaon. 



In a province whose natural hydrography offers 

 Tanks . . . . . 



such facilities for improving its industrial economy, it 



is very melancholy to see how little it, has been taken advantage of. 

 In the whole Circar there exist but three artificial reservoirs of wa- 

 ter, the whole of which are in disrepair, and not employed for pur- 

 poses of irrigation. It was not so formerly, either in the olden times 

 of Hindoo Rajahs, or more recently in the palmy days of the Maho- 

 medans, whose ruined tanks and watercourses, by their number 

 and costly material, sufficiently testify the importance they attached 

 to such undertakings. The sources of irrigation are derived from 

 the mountain streams, whose bunds are dammed up, and their 

 waters diverted over the cultivated lands, by the usual ingeni- 



_ TT : ous arrangement of channels. Of these mountain 



Watercourse. n 



streams there are 161 thus made available, 94 in a 



serviceable condition, and 77 out of order. The entire number of 

 wells, are 1,046: of these 317 are constructed of stone; 

 225 in a serviceable state, and 92 unserviceable. Wells 

 built of bricks amount to 722 — of which number there are 478 in 

 working order, and 244 out of repair. The number of wells formed 

 without facing the shaft, are 7, all out of order but one. Upon the 

 road side occasionally are seen handsomely built wells, with steps 

 leading to the water, the works of benevolent individuals, being en- 

 tirely restricted to the use of wayfarers, for whose especial benefit 

 likewise are seen at certain distances upon the great thorough fares' 

 stone water tanks, shaped like the Gungal or large earthern jar 

 of the country, the whole of which are broken. 



