'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎271] (404/458)

RAm IN 3CINDE—JULY AND AUGUST, 18dI,
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of land rendered capable of Eubbee cultivation by the rain, is consider
able, and the coming Eubbee harvest is therefore expected to be very
abundant. The health of the people has not suffered beyond what the
prevalence of fever in some parts may be supposed to have occasioned.
Eleven lives were lost by drowning.—Communication was considerably
interrupted between places during the r ins. At Khuttar half a
Khurwar of Government grain was damaged in the Ambarkhanna, and
one side of the sluice at the mouth of the Khyrewah fell in, which it
will cost 50 Eupees to repair. No loss of private property is known to
have occurred, water for drinking purposes is procured from canals
du mg the inundation, and from wells when it subsides.
6 .—The Deputy Collector of Laikpoor and Shahbunder reports
That in his district the cultivation until the end of June was progres
sing most favorably, and that there was every prospect of a most
abundant harvest. That in July however from the great rise in the
Indus, and from an almost unprecedented and continuous fall of rain, the
whole line of bunds which protect the river Indus-face of the districts
from the encroachments of the river, also the bunds on the sides of
some of the principal canals, burst, and in many parts the country was
entirely inundated. Out of the eighteen Tuppas in the districts, the
following ; Kuskartya s Dadooke Choreea, Bunna Laikpoor, Meerpoor
Buttora, Khuddee, Sherin, Birampoor, Seeranee, Gabahee, Amra, Shaka-
poor, Munyur Jutee, and Moradpoor suffered greatly from the bursting
of these bunds. The rush of water over parts of these districts is de
scribed to have been as broad and rapid as tne Incius itself* and con—■
sequently no immediate steps could be taken to repair the damage
which increased day by day. In addition to this, the rain before
alluded to began to fall, and the people were put to great distress. Some
of the large towns such as Meerpoor Buttora, &c., and nearly all the
smaller villages lying in exposed situations along the banks of the river^
and large canals, were for a time deserted by their inhabitants, who
fled to other parts of the country, lying above the reach of the flood.
The other Tuppas not mentioned in the above list suffered, if not from
the flood, at least a great deal from the effects of the heavy rains.
7— Erom the Kardars and Ameen’s reports, the following may be
considered as the damage caused by the flood, and rain, to the
cultivated parts of the country ;—the same too shows what may be
expected from an access of the general average of the Eubbee
cultivation.
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