'Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, from September 1850 to June 1852. Edited by the Secretary. Volume X.' [‎280] (413/458)

§80 REPORT ON THE HEAVY
tell to what extent this would be practicable requires more knowledge
of the locality and the water channels than I possess at present.
26.—Should a road be cleared through the hills to Sehwan, it is pos
sible a good line might be found west of the Munchar, starting from the
Sehwan road at Peraree and keeping to the west of the river-water
cultivation, and joining the Larkhanaroad at Nusseerabad. This route
would be circuitous but free from inundation, and only liable to inter-”
ruption when the hill-streams were actually running into the Narrah and
Munchar, which they will seldom do if the bunds in Kacha are kept in
good order.
True Extract. H. B. Ellis,
Assistant Commissioner in Scinde.
Extract of Digest of Intelligence from the Deputy Collector of JurmJc,
dated 25th October, 1851.
2.—The damage occasioned to the cultivation by the Hoods in the
pergunnahs of the Town of Jurruck has been
Notelyihe Collector. . , o nr,* i n
The whole of the lands sub- ^s^mrfcuined, 0,335 beegahs of Sylabee culti**
with two Hoorlas have been lost, con-
?; s e tfm. s),I ’ aidrentoutheButtai tuning thirty-two Khurwars and five Cassasof
seed. The Jaghiredar of Jurruck has suffered
nearly to an equal amount.
True Extract. H. B. Ellis,
Assistant Commissioner.
Extract paras 2 to 8 , inclusive, from a letter from the Deputy Collector
of Jurruck, No. 205, dated the 8th October, 1851.
2.—It is said by the natives that during the times of the Ameersj
the country used to be visited with periodical rain, a circumstance which
appears probable from the dry beds of tanks and hill-streams which
occasionally present themselves ; the recent fall however is said
by them to exceed by two-thirds any which they remember to have
experienced, preceded as it has been by a comparative drought of
several years’ duration, it is rendered so much the more remarkable*
and through its having been seconded by an unusal rise of the Indus,
a surface of water has been spread over the face of the country such
as never has been known to the present generation.