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well-diggers for this purpose on the spot, accustomed to wield 

 their own tools and at a low rate of wages. 



The importance of finding good serviceable coal on the hanks of 

 the Pranheetah, and so close to the main stream of the Godavery is 

 scarcely to be overrated. By means of river steamers of light 

 burden a new avenue of commerce would be opened, and access 

 at a cheap rate would be attained to the most fertile tracts in the 

 Deccan. The navigability of these rivers was shown by Captain 

 Fenwick, late of the Nizam's Service, when in the employ of Messrs. 

 Palmer and Co. of Hyderabad more than a quarter of a century 

 ago, for not only was timber floated down to the mouth of the ri- 

 ver, but the cotton of Berar was brought down from Woon, a 

 village on the bank of the Pranheetah seventy-five miles S. E. of 

 Nagpore, to Coringa. In my report on the Chennore Sircar, I shall 

 give in detail various other articles produced in those parts that 

 might be turned to commercial account and profit, if a cheap and 

 free access by means of water carriage to the coast were afforded 

 them. 



As the Godavery has never been surveyed with a view to its pur- 

 poses as a navigable river, I shall give from the information of 

 Captain Fenwick, an account of the obstructions that are met with 

 in its channel. A map, which was furnished to the Supreme Govern- 

 ment in June 1841, by the Resident at Hyderabad, Major General 

 Fraser, will indicate the localities where these impediments occur. 



From Coringa to Budrachellum, the navigation is perfectly free, 

 except that there is a whirlpool at Papeecondah, not far above 

 Palaverum at the opening of the narrow and tortuous straits of the 

 same name which wind through a range of high hills for more than 

 12 or 15 miles commencing from the Nizam's Boundary. The 

 river here is generally not more than 300 yards wide. In some 

 places I think even less. The mountains rise almost perpendicu- 

 larly from the water's edge, and the depth is many fathoms. 

 From Budrachellum to Ellapoka the river is impeded by rocks 

 when it is low, but when half full or more, there is no difficulty in 

 the navigation. The same description applies to the rocks marked 

 at Central Donurgoorum and Albaka ; from the last point the river 



