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by during the rains, the Bombay Government have proviiled a broad 

 and convenient ferry boat for the use of the public. 



The two rivers emptying into the Godavery, are the Sewna, and 

 G iinda. 



The Sewna has its source below the Paidkah hill fort and proceeds 

 first easterly to Khunnur, where it takes a turn to the southward, 

 passing- through an extensive tract of country, depositing large beds 

 of rich soil in its course to the Godavery, which it falls into below 

 Sownkhair. 



Generally speaking its banks are low, though occasionally seen 

 rising to a height of forty or tifty feet and precipitous. Shortly af- 

 ter the rains, the stream becomes very shallow, and sometimes is lost 

 amidst the immense quantities of alluvial matter obstructing the bed. 



The Gunda river rises below the hills close to Russoolpoorah and 

 Mousalla, passes easterly for some distance, when joining with a large 

 stream from Hursool, unites to form a broad shallow sandy bed, and 

 proceeding past the city of Aurungabad, unites itself after a very 

 winding course, with the Sewna in the Pj'tun Purgunnah. 



The important Poornah river has its sources amongst the higher 

 ranges to the north of the Circar, near the base of the Gowtala ghat, 

 a mile and a half west of the small village called Mahone, in the 

 Untoor Purgunnah in longitude 75® 14^ 5P' east, and latitude 20 

 23^ 50^^ north. Its banks generally rise from twenty to thirty feet 

 above the bed of the stream, which here averages at the broadest 

 parts, about 150 yards from bank to bank; the bed generally rocky, 

 and retaining water in jheels the whole year round. The course it 

 flows is easterly, through a valley upon which it exercises the most 

 important influence, visible in the luxuriant freshness of its vege- 

 tation. 



The next river is the Ajnah that rises near the village of Tuphone, 

 in the Untoor Purgunnah ; takes a south-easterly course for several 

 miles, and unites with the Poornah, south-east of Sissar Khair. Like 

 the Poornah, this stream spreads beauty and abundance, over the val- 

 ley it meanders through. 



Passing southward, we arrive at the Geerja, which is a river of 

 some importance ; rising in the Byeemuhul hills, and running east- 

 erly, receiving in its whole course, streams, from the ranges extend- 

 ing^ north and south of it, and with their united waters join the Pooi- 



