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100

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5th. The Bhinqa Forest. This has been mentioned as separating the Tarai from the valley of the Rdpti. Its area is 61 square miles.

The Tulsipur Tiilsipur Forest.

line,

which here

forest lies

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under the

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to 5 miles,

and up

the ridge

crest, or

is

range of hills ^stretching away plain for a distance of about 4t the sides of the hills to the frontier

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first ^"^^

was

till

recently.

Besides the above, which are reserved tracts, may be mentioned the Ikauna jungles, which run in a belt 20 miles long and 3 miles broad, in a south-east direction, through the pargana This tract has no timber of any value, but it affords capital of that name. grazing ground and fuel supply for the villages around. Ikauna Jungles.

In point of climate the district assimilates in some points to Bengal. '^'^^ temperature is certainly cooler by several degrees Climate than that of districts south of the Gogra, but the air, as a rule, is more laden with moisture, and is therefore not. so bracing. Natives in Government employ who are residents of the cis-Gogra tracts, usually, evince great reluctance to serve in these parts. It does not appear, however, that the climate is bad for Europeans, and the reputation that the station has got for Bahraich fever is hardly deserved. '

The

'

prevailing winds are from the east, and even when in Bara Banki the hot blasts are blowing steadily from the west, the wind here presses up towards north-west.

Prevailing winds, &o.

last eleven years the rainfall has

averaged at Nanpara, the most northerly of the registering stations, 4-5 inches, at Bahraich, the central station, 46 inches, and at Hisampur, the most southerly, 44 inches. It is remarkable that Nanpara, which is near the hills, and the forests which are known to attract the clouds, does not show a heavier fall than the southern stations.

For the Kainfall

Btatement of rainfall in Bahraich district for fourteen years, from 1860-61 to 1873-74.