'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎240] (373/458)

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EEPORT ON THE HEAVY
I observed that its low situation rendered it liable to be swept away by
an extraordinary rise in the waters of the Ooehta and Sehwan, and
particularly that of the latter branch. It was only saved this season by
the vigilance of the Kardar, and the people who watched over the
Bund raised for its protection, for I have seen the water rise to within
a few inches of the top of the embankment.
7 . —This town is made still more unfit as a place of abode, in con-
sequence of the numerous pits and hollows, which the people have dug
from the earth to build their houses ; as many of these hollows are situat
ed in the Town, and within the embankment from whence there is no
escape for the accumulated rain water, until the river subsides; and
then only a small portion can be let off; so that what with putrid filth,
and stagnant water there is every reason to conceive that this place
alone must engender and contribute to spread abroad much of that
deleterious miasma which produces disease, suffering, and death.
8 . —The practice of interment in the immediate vicinity, and often
in the midst of towns so very prevalent in this country, but which I
beg to submit, ought under no pretence to be tolerated, will, I fear, this
season, also prove noisome, and injurious to those who are within reach
of the pernicious effluvia arising therefrom.
9—All the low grounds in the Pergunnahs of Syathree, Gharka, and
Beronath have been flooded, partly by the river near its banks, but in
the interior chiefly by the rain, and much cultivation has been destroy
ed—principally that of rice.
10. The Saline matter washed down from the higher grounds, has
also conduced to destroy, or as the cultivators say / 4 burn up” a portion
of the crops in these Pergunnahs.
H* J * 1 Beronath however the land which has been inundated will
afford an opportunity for extending cultivation as soon as the waters
dry up, and the soil being of a better description than below, will pro
bably yield a plentiful and valuable Eubbee.
1 ^*“^be Bughaur appeared to flow freely, and to draw in a supply
of water which would have proved ample for the wants of the cultivated
lands dependant on it in the interior, but the continued rain this season
has in many instances rendered what would have been otherwise bene
ficial, either useless or only another source of misfortune. This branch
however did not seem to me to indicate much the unusual rise h* the
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