'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎276] (409/458)

276 REPORT ON THE HEAVY
benefits the Eyots, but the low land cultivation, such as rice and some of
the wheats have been much injured, whilst other have benefited ; the
Sugar Cane cultivation has received no injury.
9. —The people have sustained considerable loss, not so much by the
falling of the houses as by the destruction of the grain they had stored
up in them, for the next six or eight month’s consumption.
10. —The roads in this district have been much injured, and the
tanks of Clinch Wurriarki, Cliuch Meerakhar, Tullah, and Trakaneeare
filled with water sufficient for consumption until next year.
11. —In all the pergunnahs there seems to have been a good deal of
distress amongst the laboring classes, at the time the incessant rain
prevented them working for their subsistence, and with the improvi
dence generally of the Scindian character, it can easily be understood.
True Extract. H. B. Ellis,
Commissioner in Scinde.
Extract paras 2 to 26, from a letter from the Deputy Collector of
Sehwan, No. 327, dated the 3rd October, 1851.
2. —There being no Pluviometer at Sehwan, no register of the fall
of rain could be kept, but the daily accounts agreed so closely with the
rain at Kotree that the amount registered in the latter place, viz : a
fraction under eleven inches, may be taken as a near approximation.
3. —But besides the rain falling from above, the Sehwan district
receives from the west the waters from the Gaj, and all the hill-streams,
which drain the eastern face of the range of hills lying along the
western boundary of the zillah; on the east the river overflows its
banks, and finds its way by natural channels to the low lands, while in
the centre the Narra empties itself into the Munchar. The Arul also
runs into the Munchar until the water from it, the Narrahs, and
the Arul together, raise the water above the level of the Indus at Sehwan,
after which the Arul acts as a drain.
4*—With water pouring into the Munchar from all these sources, and
at a time when a large part of the Bubbee grain was lying exposed in
the Buttai enclosures, and the Khurreef crops were still young, it was
to be expected that much injury would result to the grain in the
Buttai enclosures, and to the green crops standing in low ground.