'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎279] (412/458)

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UAm IN SCINDE—JULY AND AUGUST, 1851.
Store grain in, and until grain payments can be commuted into cash ; an
earlier disposal of Government grain will be the best way of avoiding
losses by the wetting of stored grain.
20.—Khurreef crops grown in low lands are always liable to be
flooded, but these lands then yield a Rubbee crop, and the Khurreef
extends over tbe higher ground ; generally speaking, it would be dis
advantageous to attempt to keep out the water by Bunds.
The injury to buildings as before remarked does not appear to
have been great, and the muci buildings well-plastered and in good re
pair that came under my own observation seemed to stand the rain
well.
22 . —The natives in upper Scinde say that until about thirty or forty
years ago rain fell pretty regularly every hot weather, and there is
abundant evidence in tbe remains of old Bunds, and the marks of culti
vation along the western frontier, that the river streams at one time af
forded a much larger supply of water than they have done of late.
There is a tradition, I have heard repeated by tbe natives, that there
have been series of dry years and series of raining years extending over
periods of 40 or 50 years, and it is possible we may now be entering on
one of the latter.
23. —But even supposing tbe rain should fall, as frequently as it is
said to have done before, mud and plaster buildings, appear to have
always been sufficient, and there is no good reason for resorting to the
use of burnt bricks and mortar for building houses, which unless very
large and expensive would be too hot to live in.
24. —To keep mud and bboossa buildings however in a good state, it
is necessary that repairs should be executed at once, and every crack or
hole in the bjioossa plastering filled up before rain has a chance to get
inside the walls, and the Kardars or other officers on the spot should
have authority to execute such petty repairs without the present refer
ences, and delays, pending which serious injury may occur to the
buildings.
25. — The question of roads in Sehwan is one of some difficulty. The
fertility of the district is dependant on the free access the water has to
all parts. A raised road, east of the Munchar, would act as a Bund, and
throw a good deal of land out of cultivation unless expensive bridges
and viaducts were made over the course of the present inundation. To